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From: olsen@hpfcdq.HP.COM (John Olsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: NeXT has a newsgroup (Was Re: Commodore at FCC)
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Date: 21 Sep 90 14:52:18 GMT
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All this news about the 040 is great, except that Motorola has not put it
into full production yet.  They're sending samples to hardware developers,
and have been putting in fixes and changes even in the past month and a half.
I imagine it will be at least a couple of months before 040 stuff hits the
market.

There are things out there that *can* use an 040, but not any that *do* other
than protos and demo machines.  (I'd love to be corrected on this if I'm 
wrong)

(Gratuitous Amiga remark:)  When will we see a 3rd party 040 board?  It
seems that the 3rd parties always come out with a board before C-A, so I
would expect the 040 to be the same.  The tricky part is designing from a
spec instead of having a final 040 in your hands.

John M. Olsen, Graphics Technology Division  (303)229-6746
olsen@hpfcjo.HP.COM, olsen@hpfcdq.HP.COM
Hewlett-Packard, Mail Stop 73, 3404 E. Harmony Road, Ft Collins, CO 80525