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To: Yousef who wrote (4855)	3/15/1998 9:33:00 PM
From: Petz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6843

Yousef, thanks for your more detailed explanation of "rocket lots." I'm a little surprised that there is such a large queue of wafers ready for processing at each stage of production, apparently due to lack of equipment. The 3:1 speedup ratio for rocket lots would indicate that, on average, there are two wafers already waiting for each machine for each new wafer from the prior stage of production. But doubling the # of machines might only increase production 50%, because then you will sometimes be in the situation where a machine is waiting for wafers. Petz