Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/06/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 02-Jun-98 Robert Jagitsch wrote: > >> >>This is really sort of an odd thing to get hung up on. >> >>Glass is like plastic, brass or steel. Surely nobody >>cares whether Leica mined their own iron ore or drilled >>for their own oil? > > I wonder what sand (silicon) Intel uses in their Pentiums, versus > Motorola and IBM on their PowerPCs. Since the PowerPC G3 is a better > performer than a Pentium II, perhaps they use higher quality sand. ;) > actually impurities are placed into the silicon in order to allow it to work as a semiconductor instead of just an insulator :) - -- Michael Garmisa <kilemall@shell.excelsior.net> ICQ# 11583837 http://shell.excelsior.net/~kilemall/ 01-Jun-98 22:44:33 PGP key at: http://shell.excelsior.net/~kilemall/kilemall.asc