Putting numbers where your hunches used to be

Mixing midnight oil and raw nerves, Astable Industries is doggedly pursuing another important corporate decision. The manager of engineering has presented the division vice president with a new design for two assemblies of a new computer. This design replaces older bipolar discrete circuits with metal-oxide semiconductor, large-scale integration (MOS/LSI), which the engineering manager believes is superior. The vice president has a very uneasy feeling about MOS/LSI, and the two argue for an hour without reaching agreement.