Thanks for clarifying. I chalked up the difference between 'a bit' and 'can't kill it' to mitigations that have happened since the LM383 was designed but now th

Thanks for clarifying. I chalked up the difference between 'a bit' and 'can't kill it' to mitigations that have happened since the LM383 was designed but now that I'm reading up on lateral transistors it looks like you're almost certainly right.