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From: jwn775@uunet!unhd (Jason W Nyberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 68040 ships
Message-ID: <1990Sep26.190410.7702@uunet!unhd>
Date: 26 Sep 90 19:04:10 GMT
References: <03356.AA03356@ami-cg.UUCP>
Reply-To: jwn775@unhd.UUCP (Jason W Nyberg)
Organization: Computing Information Services, University of New Hampshire
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In article <03356.AA03356@ami-cg.UUCP> cg@ami-cg.UUCP (Chris Gray) writes:
>In <4710019@hpfcdq.HP.COM> olsen@hpfcdq.HP.COM (John Olsen) writes:
>
>: 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)
>
>Actually, my employer, Myrias Research Corporation, shipped a whole boxfull
>of the little devils about a week and a half ago. It is the first ship of
>a product with a 68040 in it, as far as we know. It was a half-cage of
>processors, totalling 32 68040's, each with 8 Meg of RAM (and of course a
>whole bunch of glue to make 'em work together). The chips were pre-production
>ones, so we're not supposed to give details about speed. There were no real
>performance surprises, however, and they hum along quite nicely.
>
>(Gee, I hope I don't get into trouble for mentioning this...)
>
>

Myrias shipped what?!  I can't remember what the original article was about.

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>Chris Gray  usenet: {myrias.com,uunet.uu.net!myrias,alberta!myrias}!ami-cg!cg
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jason nyberg