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From: peb@Autodesk.COM (Paul Baclaski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: in Time, again
Summary: buggy 040? should be replaced
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Date: 11 Oct 90 20:46:41 GMT
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In article <8969@helios.TAMU.EDU>, mcguire@cs.tamu.edu (Tim McGuire) writes:
> 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.

Hmmm, I would want a free replacement 040 in the future--you never know
when you might be using a compiler that used it...


Paul E. Baclaski
peb@autodesk.com