@kenshirriff @CuriousMarc Back when I worked at Linear Technology, I wrote this bio of Nello Sevastopoulos. He designed the MF10. As a firsthand recollection, I didn't question his statements - I just wrote them down. Other folks were doing similar work at the same time and a lot of them knew each other from the ISSCC shows. (This is a bio, not a technical story.) All those original guys were fascinating.
https://analogfootsteps.blogspot.com/2014/03/guru-6-nello-sevastopoulos.html
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