"scrap" auction...

[Chuck Guzis]

On 14 Oct 2008 at 12:42, Dave McGuire wrote:

>    Waferscale was his company?  I didn't know that.  I have quite a  
> few of their chips.  I think (but am not certain) that they got  
> swallowed up by STMicro.

No, it was Trilogy that I was thinking of.  Trilogy was among the 
first to try to build a system-on-a-wafer, burning through a huge 
amount of capital, eventually abandoning the effort and changing 
focus to build VAX-compatible systems by taking the remaining VC and 
merging with Elxsi.  A lesser-known personality would have been 
forced to shut down by the venture partners before being allowed to 
change direction so drastically.

Amdahl is the perfect argument for the notion of success in a startup 
having a very large component of luck involved--and an argument 
against the notion of a "Midas touch" in innovators.

Does anyone have one of the Elxsi systems in their collection?

Cheers,
Chuck