US Sources for old ICs

[William Donzelli]

>    Actually that's BS!  The military and NASA both REQUIRE them.

The only reason for that is the age old reason - beurocratic inertia. We
saw this with tube construction, then transistor construction, and now IC
construction. 

The truth of the matter is that mil-spec does not amount to much with
these chips. Many of the big contractors have found that COTS chips are
actually more reliable than the mil-spec versions, because the COTS
production lines have had FAR more fine tuning than the mil-spec
production lines. Henry Ford was right.

William Donzelli
aw288 at osfn.org