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From: rca@brunix (Ronald C.F. Antony)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Will the Next sell?
Keywords: NeXT competitors
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Date: 1 Dec 89 04:09:09 GMT
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>This is quite unfair as '486 machines are on the market from at least
>a half dozen manufacturers and the bugs have long since been
>corrected.  Also comparing at comparable list prices, '486 systems and

I'm not talking about the bugs in the 486 machines, but in the
486-chips. I so far have only heared the news from Intel that
there are bugs in the xx87-part of the chip, but nothing that
these are fixed. Or did this escape my attention ?

Ronald
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