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From: joseph@valnet.UUCP (Joseph P. Hillenburg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: NeXT has a newsgroup (Was Re: Commodore at FCC)
Message-ID: <syXwP3w163w@valnet>
Date: 22 Sep 90 19:45:39 GMT
References: <4710019@hpfcdq.HP.COM>
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olsen@hpfcdq.HP.COM (John Olsen) writes:

> 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


Eeppp..sorry about that last message. You can bet Commodore has an 
'040...

-Joseph Hillenburg

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