Check out TI and Philips/Signetics - they always have low priced op
amps. You should be able to get one well under 1$ at 1K.
-Wayne Foletta

You wrote:
>
>Yah, but I sort of shudder when I hear Burr-Brown and, to a lesser
extent,
>Maxim. For price reasons. I need to find a dual for less than a buck
and on
>the Maxim CD-ROM their budgetary quotes always feel high.  Anybody
have any
>experience with where their budgetary quotes fall with respect to end
price
>paid in the 1k-5k-10k quantities? And to maintain the nebulous contact
with
>on-topicicity, the central device in this unit is a 12c509 and I would
like
>to keep it that way (i.e. I don't want to spend more for peripheral
>components than the micro.)
>
>Brian