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From: bin@primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral)
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Subject: Re: in Time, again
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Date: 11 Oct 90 16:54:40 GMT
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From article <8969@helios.TAMU.EDU>, by mcguire@cs.tamu.edu (Tim McGuire):
> 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.

Hmm, maybe Mach itself doesn't use the opcode, but what's to stop *any*
piece of application software from using it - and crashing?
--
Paul DuBois
dubois@primate.wisc.edu

                 "Was all of this because I wore a big man's hat?"