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From: jss@sjuvax.UUCP (Jonathan Shapiro)
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Subject: Bug list request and Mr. Mateosian
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Date: Tue, 4-Dec-84 14:17:58 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  4 14:17:58 1984
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[Aren't you hungry...?]

In the first rendition of this I fear I mispelled Richard Mateosian's name.
I think I cancelled it before it got out, but if not, my apologies.

	This is in part a response to Mr. Mateosian's comments, and in part a
justification of the bug list I requested.

	For a number of months I have been trying to get National to cough
up working sample chips.  I gather from the conversations on the net that I
am in the same boat as a lot of people in netland.  Funny, but I was led to
believe that samples were ready to ship....  They aren't here yet.

	I firmly believe that if a product doesn't live up to its claims, it
is the obligation of the manufacturer to inform the purchaser of this *AND* 
to see to it that parts which were provided which are bad are replaced when
the bugs are ironed out. This is true regardless of the size of the customer.
National has not done this.

	Now someone might well argue that replacing the amount of bad
silicon National has produced in these chips would be prohibitively
expensive, and that is probably true.  Reprinting the manuals is not so
expensive. I find it particularly vexing when a representative of National
Semiconductor has the gall to take me to task for covering my small net
worth by trying to find out things his company should have told me in the
first place.  Until I posted the request, I was not even aware that a
buglist existed. Given this, it seems that my request hardly went beyond
the "normal give and take" that Mr. Mateosian advocates.

	On the other hand, National also seems to me to be the best crowd
around to be in bed with, and Mr. Mateosian and National are of course
separate and distinct. His opinions may not represent those of his
employer.

	Perhaps if you have a minute, Mr. Mateosian, you would be kind
enough to send me a copy of this buglist, now that the public has informed
me of my ignorance. I would like to see if National's buglist is keeping up
with the bugs people are known to have found.

	While you are at it, what about those samples.....?

Jonathan S. Shapiro
Haverford College
Haverford Pa.  19041
(215) 649-3929

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