Ek hw

"Design" is a funny word... also we need to talk about how Fractal divides things up...
will change "on paper" to "in theory". the idea here is that nominally an 8bit micro would be able to read a high speed signal, but it would be really bad at it.

interaction:
we need to decide this. on a highly related note: this is a cool technology we're talking about, but if we go OSS all the way, how do we make money?