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From: blenko-tom@cs.yale.edu (Tom Blenko)
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Subject: Re: 68040
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Date: 26 Oct 90 21:43:51 GMT
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In article <1990Oct24.152024.22838@unislc.uucp> dgb@unislc.uucp (Douglas Barrett) writes:
|From article <SMITHW.90Oct18104544@hamblin.hamblin.math.byu.edu>, by smithw@hamblin.math.byu.edu (William V. Smith):
|> Information I got from an unnameable source is that Moto is NOT going
|> to be shipping the 68040 before the end of next month (Nov.).  I 
|
|This was announce by Motorola about 2 months ago.  As I recall it the
|anouncement was "due to Motorola's commitment [......] deleveries in
|quantity [of the '040] the first Q 91"

As of about 15 minutes ago, NeXT, per Telebusiness, is still planning
volume shipments for Nov. 1.

Like a previous poster, I would appreciate hearing reports from anyone
receiving the new systems (maybe I won't have any choice).

	Tom