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To: Jeff Fox who wrote (93920)	12/13/1999 7:06:00 PM
From: Tony Viola	Respond to of 186894

Jeff, Yes you did. The way this goes generally is that the developers know their stuff, but the "product engineers" are died-in-the-wool digital dudes that don't always follow directions - especially the folks overseas and working for a sub contractor or small shop mobo manufacturer. OK, so it's the unwashed masses' fault. Maybe the ideal R&D/manufacturing model was old IBM's, where they were absolutely, completely vertically integrated and did everything on their own. Process development is done "local" and then pushed into production with Craig Barrett's "copy exactly" policy. This strategy has had blowout success. Thanks for that. I get tired lately of people trying to blame Barrett for everything. Tony

To: Jeff Fox who wrote (93920)	12/13/1999 8:29:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Re: "It is often human nature for independents to have to stare the experts in the eye in order for whatever concept it is to finally sink in. " I wish that was all there was to it Jeff but I don't think this is what happened at all. Intel didn't just contract out their MBs and suddenly find out at the last minute that they wouldn't work with 3 slots filled. Apparently the reference boards didn't work either. That wasn't the fault of some 3rd world board designer was it? Or are you saying the reference board designs were fine and if the 3rd party board manufacturers had just followed that design all would have been fine? Where did DELL get their boards, if not from Intel? EP