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There has been, and still is, a tendency on the part of electronics technicians and engineers to make comparisons between vacuum tubes and transistors. While such comparisons are inevitable, they may lead to the completely erroneous conclusion that transistors can be treated just as vacuum tubes are, that vacuum-tube techniques are synonymous with transistor techniques. While useful analogies can be made between vacuum-tube and transistor circuits, yet the transistor is not an outgrowth of vacuum-tube work. It is an entity in itself. It is separate and independent, and must be treated as such.