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Jacques said...

very interesting!

as for: "The continuing success of the original 555 and the failure of the improved successor can be viewed as an example of the worse is better principle."

I would attribute this failure to poor marketing. The fact is that modern CMOS version of the 555 are successfull.

Feb 23, 2016, 11:15:53 AM

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