Adam,

I have to say I agree with you .. seems pretty silly to design on the hope that a future product is going to be
available and work exactly like it should (on time , under budget, blah blah blah)

I design using parts i know i can get overnight UPS red that *everybody* keeps in stock.  I'm using an 877 on my
product too but i just built an ICSP port on the board so the end user can just mail it back to me for upgrades. easy
/ cheap / works.

david dunn

>
>P.S.  I'm sorry if I appear to be rude in any way.  Sending 3 high
>priority messages to the list ranting about how badly a particular
>product is designed, placing blame/fault on a company that has done
>nothing wrong, coupled with it being too late for me to approach nearly
>anything rationally... well, it irritated me tonight.  I do hope,
>however, that this information was useful  (which it should be unless
>you were asking rhetorical questions ;-)
>

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