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From: mslater@cup.portal.com (Michael Z Slater)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: 68040 where is it?
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Date: 24 Aug 90 04:29:54 GMT
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 >Just out of curiosity, does anyone out there know when Motorola is
>supposed to be delivering the '040 in mass quantities??  I heard
>there was some problem with the FPU a while back but that it was fixed
>and things were ready to roll.  So what's happening now?

General sampling will be announced real soon now, with production this
fall.  It appears that the latest rev of the silicon has fixed the
significant problems.

Michael Slater, Microprocessor Report   mslater@cup.portal.com
707/823-4004   fax: 707/823-0504