Gene Cavanaugh is with a Mississippi consortium called the Institute
for Technological Development.  This is a cooperative effort between the
government, academia, and industry to try to develop a better base for high
tech industry in Mississippi. The entire group has initial funding of $20 meg
and the advanced microelectronics section has the largest share of this.  The
engineering manager for this section is Bill Durham from Texas Instruments.
	The group's plan is to generate local industry by encouraging spin-
offs from projects they initiate.  According to Gene, the group has about
14 engineers and 14 Sun workstations with a very wide variety of software
packages.  They are planning on getting VTI's tools.  The group's recent
work has included megacell development for NCR, Thompson, and others.
	Gene wants to come by with Bill Durham to see if we have any basis
for joint projects.  Some possibilities include them doing designs for us for
little or no NRE in return for manufacturing rights or their licensing some of
our designs to market. (Gene specifically suggested licensing the PIXI or
Calfee's RISC).
	I've tentatively scheduled a meeting with Gene Cavanaugh and Bill
Durham in the executive conference room at 1:30 on Wed. March 16. Please
let me know if there is any interest in this meeting.
 -- Don