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Relabeling to reflect a Nat Semi type part number by Fairchild is just an
attempt to meet a customer's requirements and increase sales of the same
part, from inventory. 

If customers have not configured their automated purchasing systems to
reflect different vendor part numbers for the same type of part, down-stream
activities can be quite inflexible.

It's hard to predict what customers will want their parts labelled 10 years
in advance. I doubt this time frame is typical in the industry, or that it
was predicted at the time of mfr, either. Note that Fairchild has sold, as a
company, in the intervening period, and that many original suppliers no
longer source the DIP version of this commercial grade part.

Believe me, the buyer (or someone else) pays for this inflexibility and the
long shelf time, even if 'only' in fractions of cents per part.

RL

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