>I am now redesigning my circuit to use the Exar devices - I get them
cheaper
>than the NSC equivalent so the only people who have lost out by not sending
>out samples are NSC themselves this time.

Well, what they did was cause you to look for second sources ;))

>The issue I had was that I only needed a couple of these units - I could
>have ordered them from my distributors but because of minimum orders and
>postage charges it made them relatively expensive.

yeah, I appreciated that, and the attitude at a lot of development outfits
would be "so what" and just order them from RS or Farnell. For us "little
guys" the costs do throw things somewhat, which is why guys on this list
talk of having heaps of "jellybean" parts in stock. I don't know if you
considered these particular parts to be in that category.

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