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From: chari@nueces.cactus.org (Chris Whatley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 68040 vs 80246 (Was Re: Xerox sues Apple!!!)
Message-ID: <1989Dec19.043507.23646@nueces.cactus.org>
Date: 19 Dec 89 04:35:07 GMT
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ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies) writes:

>In article <6037@sun.acs.udel.edu> barry@sun.acs.udel.edu (Barry Fausnaugh) writes:
>>
>>Not only that, but haven't a number of the 486 chips been recalled due to a 
>>serious bug in the architecture or something like that.  I vaguely remember 
>>reading that somewhere...have to see if I can drudge up the article.

>	Don't be too hasty; Motorola hasn't released the 68040 yet. They
>may accomplish the same thing Intel did, release a chip with a bug or
>two.

It is my impression that he '040 is finished and is being held up by
legal issues with Toshiba dataing to their co-development on the '030.
I hope that this means that we will see a legally delayed, fully
debugged chip when it comes to market.

Chris

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