Hi

Problem 10-4 in Digital Design by Morris Mano asks about the NAND gate below.
assuming beta=100,so Ic=2.4 mA when All A,B & C are high so the Transistor is saturated.
You know one of the week points of DTL gate is its number of outputs ( upto 8 in the above circuit) and this is what i can't understand why!
I mean I can't understand why there cannot be over 8 outputs for this gate.
Problem 10-4 of Digital design discusses this issue. I need help understand the problem and so the fact that there can't be more than 8 outputs. here it is"
10-4
Connect the output "Y" to N input of similar gates. ( the transistor is saturated )
a) what is the current of the 2K resistor? ( solved, 2.4 mA)
b) What is current we get from each input? (the answer is 0.82 mA but i don't know how and why?)
After I understand part b, we can go to the rest of the problem:
c) calculate the collector current based on N. ( answer is 2.4+0.82N)
d) what is the maximum of N if we want the trasistor to be still saturated