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To: kash johal who wrote (33955)	7/6/1998 2:31:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574096

Kash, Thereare other differencesm tighter V specs and others that also accopmany higher temp capabilities. There are a sea of MIL specs for all kinds of uses, Rad Hard, non alpha packages generating etc. The MIL standards are an attempt to make sure they only install parts that will never fail within their parameters as missions/lives etc depend on them. The failure of a complex device with 1 million parts if each part has 1 chancein a million of failing comes into it. The first tube based computers with 1000's of tubes, all rated 10,000 hours or more on average operated for hours and sometimes days before a tube failure halted it. As with any law overzealous enforcement will lead to ridiculous extremes. AMD and othersare prey to this kind of thing. I suspect they will al act defensively from now on and will include some deflecting notes in their spec sheets. I do not hate Intel, I decry the overzealous tactics they employ against AMD. Tactics designed to never allow AMD to get any level of parity with Intel. Too many fair play genes I guess. Intel acts like the Russian hockey teams did when in the lead. They would keep running up the score when the Canadian teams would ease off after gettin an insurmountable lead.