I was a real pain. The product was designed based on the Philips (HEF) Datasheet. Only when we had bought a batch of SGS-Thomson parts (HCF prefix) did we find that they were different, and from then on we had to check every quote to make sure that the supplied had not substituted parts from a different manufacturer, especially when all the other 4000 series was "don't care" as far as manufacturer was concerned.

