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To: John Farrell who wrote (43627)	6/7/2000 6:23:00 AM
From: Bilow	Respond to of 93625

Hi John Farrell; Your explanation of what Gerber files are is correct. What I posted was a joke, and was interpreted that way by the engineering community. Tomshardware used "Gerber" to refer to a PCB, while the industry uses "Gerber" to refer only to the artwork for a PCB. It is pretty clear to me that the technical slip was Tom's, I doubt he has ever touched a set of gerbers files, or even talked to a PCB house in his life, much less know what an "Excellon drill" files is. Re my technical knowledge of what Gerber files are, see my post where I showed that the claim that DDR designs required huge number of layers in PCBs was a fantasy: "Note for mom and pop. These links are to engineering packages usually referred to as "gerber" files." #reply-13485509 My post included a link to a gerber file: developer.intel.com and instructions on how to extract the number of board layers from the unzipped file. Of course I know what Gerber means. Sorry you didn't catch the funny. The RDRAM story is over now, and the topic is going to be the butt of a lot of inside jokes over the next 3 months, so keep your sense of humor active when reading my posts. -- Carl