At 12:57 PM 6/18/00 -0500, you wrote:

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>Tougher to forget about it now, though, when ground is often labeled "Vss"
>since it's the source of electrons.

It's kind of a holdover from the old NMOS days, these days with CMOS,
Vss is connected to about as many drains as sources, and ditto with Vdd.

;-)

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