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...along with the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan and Belarus, stumbled into the nuclear club when the empire crumbled. Although all three have promised to banish the weapons entirely, Ukraine has been wavering on its commitment. A growing number of its leaders regard their atomic arsenal as a bargaining chip to trade for Western aid and security guarantees -- and increasingly as a safeguard against possible Russian aggression that they are loath to relinquish...
Microsoft is only a software maker, of course, and the linchpin of Gates' strategy is getting the manufacturers of these machines to modify them so they will run his new programs. Judging by the blue-chip companies that will be sharing the dais with him when he unveils his system this week at the Hotel Macklowe in midtown Manhattan -- Hewlett-Packard, Ricoh, Compaq Computer, Minolta, McCaw Cellular, Canon, NEC and Northern Telecom -- he seems to have made remarkable progress. Says Paul Saffo, a research fellow at the Institute for the Future: "This...
Then there was the final wiring to connect all the individual units together into one single chip. In fact, if we retain any memory of the project, it must be the painful experience with wiring, which took the largest amount of time we spent laying out the chip...
...finished drawing out the chip, with 2000-plus transistors, two days before the deadline, and spent the rest of the week running simulation tests and fixing bugs. The good news is that there were no major design errors and, to our utmost satisfaction, the software simulation worked...
...simulation indicated our chip was quite slow, but for a couple of first-time chip designers, the fact that ten days of intense work paid off was itself a tremendous reward...