Re: Tempest Multigame: Problem?

From: Kurt Mahan <kmahan_at_xmission.com>
Date: Thu Jul 22 1999 - 21:07:40 EDT

[... clay's undying love for maxim ...]

> Aiiiiigh! Kurt said the "M" word!!! (maxim) My VP of engineering "will
> personally fire anyone that specs a Maxim part into a design as a sole
> source". Horrible supply/volume problems. Maybe it's just the Pacific
> Northwest, but everyone I talk to around here has problems with Maxim
> production quantities... Probably directly related to that "we never
> obsolete anything" policy (so the fabs are busy with smalls runs of dreck
> all the time). They make neat stuff though, and supply might not be a big
> deal if you're not building 100K's a month...

*snicker* -- they never had a problem sending me samples! And since my
production runs usually numbered under 20, well, never a problem.. :)

Kurt
Received on Thu Jul 22 20:07:43 1999

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