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From: shwake@raysnec.UUCP (Ray Shwake)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: in Time, again
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Date: 15 Oct 90 18:04:45 GMT
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henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:

>Realistically, folks, the odds are good that there is at least one bug in
>the 68040 that *nobody* knows about yet.  You simply can't buy a machine
>built with a leading-edge part like that without some risk of hardware bugs.

	Ah, but the same thing could be said about the Intel 486, the latest
Sparc or MIPS set, the IBM RS set, etc. (I assume Henry wasn't speaking only
about the latest Moto.)