In article <200103142147.WAA14995@megalon.idonex.se>,
Marcus Comstedt <marcus@idonex.se> wrote:

>Um.  Nobodyš masks their own CPU's.  It's simply not cost efficient to
>do so.  (It may have been in the early eighties, but not anymore.)

I'm intrigued.  Does this mean that it might *still* be cost efficient
to mask CPUs today with early 80s-era tech (I'm assuming you're
talking about LSI vs. VLSI)?  Some of those early CPUs were kind of
neat in their sparse-but-elegant design.

--Mirian