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low rooms. The IC
fab people have diffusion furnaces, chemical vapor deposition
systems, as well as lithography and etching equipment. They're
kept pretty busy making wafers of pirated circuitry.
"The containment dome next to the lam-flow building houses
the power kernel, shielding, transformers, and the like.
"The systems prototypers use most of the rest of the layout.
Currently, they're turning out 32-bit microprocessor-based
computers. They're rack-mounted and ugly as hell, but with the
different semiconductors, they run at ten times the clock
frequencies you can do back home."
Arriving at the armored door, Tar pushed his card into the
reader. The powered door slid slowly into its pocket within the
reinforced wall, and closed heavily behind them.
The group followed Tar down a thoroughly featureless hallway.
Just to the left of the grand staircase, they used the servants'
stairway in the northwest corner of the castle. Tar led his
friends down two flights of stai
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