If you're reading this, and you know anything about the early days of the MOSIS Project at USC/ISI, mosey on over to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:MOSIS and drop a note there. I'm trying to enhance the article on MOSIS, but of course it needs to be documented history, not just, "I remember..." or "I think..."
If you don't know what MOSIS is, it's the Metal Oxide Semiconductor Implementation System. It's a multi-project wafer fabrication service dating back to the early 1980s, and it transformed VLSI research in the United States. (I've never understood why it was emulated aggressively worldwide, though a few other MPW systems have existed.)
I worked for MOSIS for a couple of years, though my job was on the compiler for the ICL programming language that most of the processing tools where implemented in. I had basically nothing to do with the VLSI side or the production run side.
Image at the top from the March 1984 user manual, available at https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/citations/ADA139744.
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