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To: Pullin-GS who wrote (17568)	10/13/1997 4:43:00 AM
From: Skipper	of 61433

Paul, <<ASND engineers at their worst! Sheesh! Build sub-par quality products, and you get sub-par performance. Perhaps they should have gone with a CMOS logi design, saving the TTL logic technology (read heat) for the power-hungry driver side of the cards...perhaps even substituting MOSFET component for any anolog circuitry involved where possible. But this costs money. Apparently ASND missed on a balance that would satisfy engineering requirements. Bad move. Bad for management letting this happen. These types of problems don't go away with a wave of a magic wand. :-(>> Sorry, but I have to laugh at this kind of armchair warrior stuff (though I do value many of your other comments, don't get me wrong). You make it sound so easy. Just join a startup and make a fortune building a better moustrap. Anyone can do it. Who else even has a goddamn TNT! USR stumbled along for 20 years and is now expert in playing follow-the-leader. ASND was first to market, and not by shoddy engineering. You know as well as I what demands are on any company in this market. And isn't the truth of the matter on overheating just like the truth of the matter on who's got RAS market share or which 56K modem standard is winning? There's no shortage of bias. Skipper

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