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• If you read what he is winning this award for it is deserved. He revolutionized the computer industry by introducing the just-in-time inventory and direct retail sales of computers to customers as well as basically showing the world the usefulness …

  in Michael Dell wins Liftetime Achievement award Comment by eskimo November 2001
• [quote]Originally posted by pscates: Jeez-louise, guys. Some of you really make it sound like the ONLY people who watch NASCAR are inbred, slack-jawed "Deliverence" extras. No, they just consist of 99.9% of the audience. And then there is…

  in Apple-sponsored racing... Comment by eskimo November 2001
• IE6 at home. Nutscrape Navigator 4 at work.

  in What internet browser you are now using Comment by eskimo November 2001
• [quote]Originally posted by alcimedes: eskimo, as someone who seems to have good taste in processors, why did you go with XP over win2k, if you have to pick one of the two. i've used both a lot, and 2k seemed better/cleaner/faster across the board…

  in How exactly are chips produced on those giant cookie sheets anyway? Comment by eskimo December 2001
• [quote]Originally posted by MacAddict: I love this place. I love this thread. That thread probably taught me the most about computers in one webpage ever. Great work Eskimo, and by the way, are you at Motorola now? Are you still an AMD/WinXP/…

  in How exactly are chips produced on those giant cookie sheets anyway? Comment by eskimo November 2001
• [quote]Originally posted by King Chung Huang: Here's the original thread from the old AppleInsider. page 2 Sweet thanks King Chung, that's awesome!

  in How exactly are chips produced on those giant cookie sheets anyway? Comment by eskimo November 2001
• Chapter 8: You can think of a transistor as a switch, as this is what it is often used for in digital logic devices such as a processor. The most common type of transistor in use today is called a MOSFET. This stands for Metal Oxide Semiconductor…

  in How exactly are chips produced on those giant cookie sheets anyway? Comment by eskimo November 2001
• Chapter 7: Back end and loose ends Well when we last we left our intrepid wafer it was basically finished. Remember the breakdown I gave you was highly simplistic and modern processors undergo hundreds and hundreds of process steps. Wafer fabs …

  in How exactly are chips produced on those giant cookie sheets anyway? Comment by eskimo November 2001
• Chapter 6: It?s all about stripping baby! Then we buff it up So if you?ve been following this far you understand that basically a wafer keeps passing back and forth between modules. If you can?t tell I?m getting a little tired from describing …

  in How exactly are chips produced on those giant cookie sheets anyway? Comment by eskimo November 2001
• Chapter 5: Shooting cannonballs and Fire! Ah implant, where little boys who still haven?t grown up all the way can live out their fantasies of shooting things while making a lot of money . Remember back in Ch. 2 I mentioned that Sil…

  in How exactly are chips produced on those giant cookie sheets anyway? Comment by eskimo November 2001
• Chapter 4: Mmmm, club sandwich on rye So we are inside our nice clean building with lots of fancy equipment and these really cool looking wafers of silicon. What next? Well its time to make some chips (sigh of relief settles over poster who h…

  in How exactly are chips produced on those giant cookie sheets anyway? Comment by eskimo November 2001
• Chapter 3: We need a special place to make our chips So we?ve got these wafers now. They are real pretty too, very shiny like a mirror because while you weren?t looking we went and polished them using a very advanced process called CMP. There we…

  in How exactly are chips produced on those giant cookie sheets anyway? Comment by eskimo November 2001
• Chapter 2: From sand to your screen. The basic ingredient in almost every chip or processor made is Silicon. Atomic number 14 on the periodic table of elements. Silicon is sand basically. If you?ve ever taken a walk on a sandy beach you are w…

  in How exactly are chips produced on those giant cookie sheets anyway? Comment by eskimo November 2001
• How are Chips produced? This is a long description but I hope pretty easy to follow. I?ll break it up into chapters to make it easiers. 1 chapter per post. Chapter1: Vacuum cleaners, telephones, and semiconductors In the beginning there we…

  in How exactly are chips produced on those giant cookie sheets anyway? Comment by eskimo November 2001
• [quote]Originally posted by EmAn: Wasn't it always 150? It was 250 on old AI

  in I have to ask Comment by eskimo November 2001
• [quote]Originally posted by AppleProphet: The admins aren't over 18. Not sure about the mods being over 21 though. Amorph and robo are both over 21. Amorph will be the old man here I think

  in The official AppleInsider Age Thread Comment by eskimo November 2001
• [quote]Originally posted by Eugene: I don't plan on keeping either. They're bathed in styrofoam peanuts at this very moment. Bill Gates says only 400,000 were available at launch. Things look decent on the ebay front for you Eugene. …

  in Nintendo Game Cube vs. Microsoft X Box Comment by eskimo November 2001
• [quote]Originally posted by Eugene: Make that two XBoxes. 6th in line at Target at 4:30 AM. bastard! Hmm, $399 for an iPod mp3 player or $299 for an Xbox? Or maybe i can get spoiled like Eugene and have both of them

  in Nintendo Game Cube vs. Microsoft X Box Comment by eskimo November 2001
• [quote]Originally posted by Solishu: All the consoles have killer games. PS2 has FFX eventually, GC will have Zelda and Metroid^3 as well as Soul Calibre 2. XBox? I'm sure they'll have one eventually.... Have you seen DOA3 for XBox? Drool…

  in Nintendo Game Cube vs. Microsoft X Box Comment by eskimo November 2001
• [quote]Originally posted by Fran441: Eskimo, why aren't you moderating any more? Wasn't asked.

  in Nintendo Game Cube vs. Microsoft X Box Comment by eskimo November 2001
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