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From: ewp@ihuxn.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: 'Artificially' different products
Message-ID: <273@ihuxn.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 1-Jul-83 08:26:23 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul  1 08:26:23 1983
Date-Received: Thu, 7-Jul-83 01:04:57 EDT
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A lot of time and effort is needed to do the physical design of hardware.  In
some cases the parts not needed are left off the boards (for example, a
memory board half empty).  In some cases the cost of separate assembly lines,
extra inventory, parts tracking, etc. make it cheaper to just
disable the unordered logic.  After all, you are paying for the value added
by the engineering, not just the cost of the parts.

Ed Pawlak
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