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From: kaufman@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU (Marc Kaufman)
Newsgroups: net.dcom
Subject: Re: Cisco Systems and dealing with small companies
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Date: Sat, 16-Aug-86 13:41:47 EDT
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In article <12721@amdcad.UUCP> phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai) writes:
.>... Parts qualification is one thing I'm thinking of.
.>You have to test a large sample of each chip from each vendor.  How
.>can a small company afford to buy a thousand 68020s just to bake them
.>in an oven and see how long they work?

Actually, you don't really need to do this. Just buy from the Japanese.
They actually test their parts before they ship them, unlike the
American companies.