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From: terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr.)
Subject: Re: aha2742. why no 386bsd driver soon.
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In article <CHssD8.1qt@tfs.com>, julian@TFS.COM (Julian Elischer) writes:
> I do understand this, but they seem to have been recently advised
> by their patent people (or something) to tighten their ship..
> I am having trouble getting through to them,
> they even have a note in the literature dept. (so I'm told) telling them
> that they are not to send out docs about the AIC7770. So they refused to
> send me this information. This is after I quoted the part numbers
> and titles, so I was not condemming without TRYing ..
> In fact I am continuing my attempts.. I just keep hitting a brick wall..

  It's probably dependent on whether they think the person making the request
is a "hobbyist/end-user" type person or a "potential OEM". If a manufacturer
of PC motherboards were to call them up and say "I'd like to include your
AIC7770 part in a new design", they'd probably get better treatment. Note that
this *isn't* a suggestion for anyone to call them up and misrepresent them-
selves, just an observation.

	Terry Kennedy		Operations Manager, Academic Computing
	terry@spcvxa.bitnet	St. Peter's College, Jersey City, NJ USA
	terry@spcvxa.spc.edu	+1 201 915 9381