On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 19:39:16 +0000, Kurt Hamster
wrote:

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 19:34:04 GMT, Don Pearce used
to say...

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 19:31:09 +0000, Kurt Hamster
wrote:

Nope, you can waffle as much as you like the transistor was invented in
1947. The transistor itself hasn't evolved much since then. Most
technology BASED on transistors is still evolving e.g. microchips,
surface mount technology etc, but even then most of that evolution is
based on how many can fit in a finite space and how to get them to work
without setting themselves alight.

The principle of the transistor has not involved, it doesn't matter how
its physical form takes it's still 57 year old technology. If I was 57 I
wouldn't consider myself to be young, would you?


If you were 57, would you consider that you had advanced since your
birth? Yes.

If you had been dead for thirty years, would you consider you had
advanced since your death? No.

OK?

As I said, you can waffle as much as you like. Transistor technology is
57 years old, any new advances are still based on old technology.

To use your analogy then doesn't that preclude, $DEITY forbid, someone
using valves on a state of the art computer motherboard?


So your position is that transistors now are the same as transistors
57 years ago - there is no current state of the art. You are entirely
clueless.

Valves, on the other hand, are exactly like they were 57 years ago -
there have been no advances and the state of their art is far from
current.

Of course there has been one marketing led company that put a valve on
a computer motherboard. They have been such a tremendous success that
you can find virtually nothing else at your local computer parts shop.
Kurt, you really are some sort of prat.

d
Pearce Consulting
http://www.pearce.uk.com