From: Paul Hovnanian P.E. on
Adrian Tuddenham wrote:

> Paul Hovnanian P.E. <paul(a)hovnanian.com> wrote:
>
>> Tim Wescott wrote:
>> >
>> > On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:15:36 -0800, whit3rd wrote:
>> >
>> > > How about the OLD analog guys? Eccles and Jordan, and Steinmetz?
>> > > We all build on their foundation work.
>> >
>> > Honorable mention for Ohm, Ampere, Faraday, Henry, Volta, Maxwell, that
>> > crowd?
>>
>> If you are going to nominate people for fundamental principles, how
>> about Murphy?
>
> Frank Murphy?

This guy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy's_law

Probably used as much as Ohm's.

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From: Tim Williams on
"Phil Hobbs" <pcdhSpamMeSenseless(a)electrooptical.net> wrote in message
news:4B3259BA.1030104(a)electrooptical.net...
> Well, you can do it by cheating--build an NMOS gate in a CMOS process.
> Takes some quiescent current though.

Can you strap a PMOS as a CCS, ala Intel's HMOS?

As I understand it, they used depletion mode PMOS, which would require
implantation or something, certainly not the usual P processing.

Tim

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From: John Larkin on
On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:25:48 -0500, Phil Hobbs
<pcdhSpamMeSenseless(a)electrooptical.net> wrote:

>Michael A. Terrell wrote:
>> Joel Koltner wrote:
>>> "Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net> wrote in message
>>> news:yM6dnRkFd8E5ra_WnZ2dnUVZ_o1i4p2d(a)earthlink.com...
>>>> Typical of Bill. Where is the list ot ten worst analog engineers?
>>>> Is he afraid that his name would be the first, followed by Lucas, then
>>>> Madman Muntz?
>>> The difference is that I don't think Muntz ever claimed to be an engineer...
>>> just a salesguy who was willing to cheapen up equipment if he thought there'd
>>> still be a market for it!
>>
>>
>> Ok, he was an engineering manager with a pair of dykes. :)
>>
>>
>Just dikes. Key distinction.
>
>Cheers
>
>Phil Hobbs

*I* am a manager with a pair of dykes!

John

From: don on
John Larkin wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:25:48 -0500, Phil Hobbs
> <pcdhSpamMeSenseless(a)electrooptical.net> wrote:
>
>> Michael A. Terrell wrote:
>>> Joel Koltner wrote:
>>>> "Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net> wrote in message
>>>> news:yM6dnRkFd8E5ra_WnZ2dnUVZ_o1i4p2d(a)earthlink.com...
>>>>> Typical of Bill. Where is the list ot ten worst analog engineers?
>>>>> Is he afraid that his name would be the first, followed by Lucas, then
>>>>> Madman Muntz?
>>>> The difference is that I don't think Muntz ever claimed to be an engineer...
>>>> just a salesguy who was willing to cheapen up equipment if he thought there'd
>>>> still be a market for it!
>>>
>>> Ok, he was an engineering manager with a pair of dykes. :)
>>>
>>>
>> Just dikes. Key distinction.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Phil Hobbs
>
> *I* am a manager with a pair of dykes!
>
> John
>

Do they read this group ;-).

don
From: Phil Hobbs on
John Larkin wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:25:48 -0500, Phil Hobbs
> <pcdhSpamMeSenseless(a)electrooptical.net> wrote:
>
>> Michael A. Terrell wrote:
>>> Joel Koltner wrote:
>>>> "Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net> wrote in message
>>>> news:yM6dnRkFd8E5ra_WnZ2dnUVZ_o1i4p2d(a)earthlink.com...
>>>>> Typical of Bill. Where is the list ot ten worst analog engineers?
>>>>> Is he afraid that his name would be the first, followed by Lucas, then
>>>>> Madman Muntz?
>>>> The difference is that I don't think Muntz ever claimed to be an engineer...
>>>> just a salesguy who was willing to cheapen up equipment if he thought there'd
>>>> still be a market for it!
>>>
>>> Ok, he was an engineering manager with a pair of dykes. :)
>>>
>>>
>> Just dikes. Key distinction.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Phil Hobbs
>
> *I* am a manager with a pair of dykes!
>
> John
>

Yeah, but look where you live. Anyway, you're a madman too.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

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