Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site ucbcad.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!tektronix!ucbcad!ucbesvax.turner From: ucbesvax.turner@ucbcad.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: let the chips fall... - (nf) Message-ID: <82@ucbcad.UUCP> Date: Mon, 25-Jul-83 15:35:15 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbcad.82 Posted: Mon Jul 25 15:35:15 1983 Date-Received: Wed, 27-Jul-83 01:13:16 EDT Sender: notes@ucbcad.UUCP Organization: UC Berkeley, CAD Group Lines: 18 #N:ucbesvax:5600007:000:597 ucbesvax!turner Jul 25 03:13:00 1983 ["Keeping Informed", Harvard Business Review, Nov-Dec '81, v. 59, #6, p. 8]: When the microprocessor chip was developed at Intel Corporation in 1972, Robert Noyce, the chairman, saw its potential and en- couraged the work that gave the company the lead in its field. Others, who could have started even in the race, hesitated to work with a component so small that it could get lost in a crack. Noyce, however, had already realized that chips could be so cheap that losing one would be irrelevant. Makers of contact lenses should have it so good. Michael Turner ucbvax!ucbesvax.turner