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To: Bill Jackson who wrote (73726)	10/2/1999 8:54:00 PM
From: grok	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572807

RE: <KZNERD, RE Validation procedures. Lends new meaning to the dictum, "Blind leading blind" Still, I cannot believe it happened this way. Intel is not that stupid for this to happen this way. I suspect it is a consistency and buildability problem encountered in volume production of Rambus compliant products. They must have had and tested working products.> Yes, I didn't mean that say that Intel never did any system testing of their own. I'm sure that they did lots of it with Camino. However, there are many Rdram vendors and many RIMM vendors and many OEMs. Is there any process of ensuring that there is "plug and play" interchangability of parts such has been in common use throughout the history of the electronics business? Or even throughout the industrial revolution going back to Eli Whitney? What I mean is: Can individual parts be individually tested and have enough margin that they work together with a very low failure rate when assembled in mass production?