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From: phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: net.dcom
Subject: Re: Cisco Systems and dealing with small companies
Message-ID: <12733@amdcad.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 17-Aug-86 02:43:22 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 17 02:43:22 1986
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Reply-To: phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai)
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In article <772@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU> kaufman@Shasta.UUCP (Marc Kaufman) writes:
>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.

You're wrong, some American companies do test their parts before
shipment.  Also, I was specifically thinking of problems that only
show up after a few hundred hours of operation.
-- 
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