From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <463D888D.8010805@conducive.org> Date: Sun, 6 May 2007 15:49:33 +0800 From: W B Hacker User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070221 SeaMonkey/1.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] speaking of kenc References: <463D7F37.2040001@conducive.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5c4cbbde-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Rogelio Serrano wrote: > On 5/6/07, W B Hacker wrote: *snip* >> >> If that ever comes to pass, I'm going back to a wire-wrap tool. > > no kidding! wire wrap is still a nice technology for protoyping! try > developing a 6 layer backplane pcb. Thanks - I stopped at 8 layers, "Manhattan Geometry" and I haven't even shaken hands in nearly 30 years. But embedding on-die what used to be separate IC's if not transistors (or, for me vacuum tubes - M33 analog & AN/FSQ-7 digital) has reduced the layer count - in growth rate as well as absolute terms - and very dramatically so. Shouldn't be too far-off that a CPU ships with a few dozen LEDs around the package periphery and a mating optical socket instead of half a thousand BGA bumps. Can only wish it were also so with libs.... ;-) Bill