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From: mcguire@cs.tamu.edu (Tim McGuire)
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Subject: Re: in Time, again
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barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) writes:
>Those dissapointed by the lack of media converage of the big NeXT
>unveiling last month should note Time (or one of its clones)
>had a little blurb on it last week.
>However, it wasn't positive---they accused Steve of hawking vapor,
>saying he currently has no 040 CPUs in the pipeline, and that
>Improv is months away from completion.
>--
>Barry Merriman

I haven't see the article mentioned, but my sources (who are NeXT PR people,
so you can color that any way you wish) say that NeXT has enough '040s for
their immediate needs. 

They tell me that the first large batch of 68040s had a bug which did not
affect any of the NeXT software because mach does not use the affected 
opcode.  This bug does sink most of the other companies who would use the 40.
So NeXT took delivery of the entire batch and can thus release an 040 machine
well ahead of everyone else.

Someone who doesn't know the above, but does know that no 040s are shipping
could make the accusation you mentioned. 

I have know knowledge of Improv other than I saw a NeXT rep running it and
was impressed.

If anyone knows more than I do about this, feel free to correct me.

Tim McGuire
mcguire@cs.tamu.edu