At 07:24 PM 01/29/2002 , Kai, Francis wrote: Dear SI gurus: **snip** I hope John Howard can ask our government to get more funding in Signal Integrity, Electronic **snip** Francis Kai I hope we can keep the government out of this. It already does enough by regulations to ensure our continued employment. ps. I'm maybe pre-vintage since I remember when analog computers were too sensitive to 'noise' and thus digital was invented so that 'noise' had much less of an effect. And then the digital 'noise' started to interfere with the remaining analog... And the FCC got involved. Full circle again, and again, and again... We back to advocating teaching analog (basic EM) in order to understand SI and EMC, which have become essential to digital, which was invented to overcome the issues of SI and EMI... What was that Asimov story about ??? I feel really old now. - Bill Bill Owsley, owsley@xxxxxxxxx 919) 392-8341 Compliance Engineer Cisco Systems 7025 Kit Creek Road POB 14987 RTP. NC. 27709 ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list or at our remote archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu