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To: Elmer who wrote (33883)	7/2/1998 11:40:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (1) of 1574774

Elmer, You miss the point. Obviously there is a continuum fo speeds over the entire range and they are selected for speed, current draw or whatever and binned and marked accordingly. If you have an excess of 350 Mhz parts and a shortage of 266 Mhz parts you can either run the line again optimised for 266 or mark some 350 at 266. You can also force the package to not run at over266 to avoid people simply buying the 266 and running them at 350, thus saving a bundle. This is marketing and shows that you can arbitrarily choose what price to sell the same parts for. You can call it a 266 but that does not make it a 266 if is a 350 , and if this has been done many times in the industry then every one of those times will now have the potential for a lawsuit. Same as the Bausch and Lomb suit showed you cannot sell the same thing to a trusting public at different prices and mark them differently. Bill

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