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From: markz@ssc.UUCP (Mark Zenier)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Motorola 68040 (possable bugs?)
Message-ID: <865@ssc.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jun 90 19:21:34 GMT
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Organization: SSC, Inc., Seattle, WA
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In article <7MJ$L}_@rpi.edu>, DeWeeseT@socrates1.rdrc.rpi.edu (Thomas E. DeWeese) writes:
> Hello I was wondering if, some one could answer my question, it has to do with
> the Motorola 68040.  I heard from a reasonably reliable source (-read he may 
> well be wrong) that there were problems with the 68040 and that Motorola would
> be releasing a 68045 that corrected the errors.  I heard this about six 
> months ago, and since I have had no cofermation of it I was wondering what
> you people knew?

Motorola usually doesn't change a part number to fix bugs.  They just
put a warning paragraph in the spec sheet giving dates and mask revision
codes.  Sounds bogus.

Markz@ssc.uucp