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From: moose@svc.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: They're shipping.
Message-ID: <1990Nov21.164957.1415@svc.portal.com>
Date: 21 Nov 90 16:49:57 GMT
References: <14917@cs.utexas.edu> <1990Nov21.062510.25201@engin.umich.edu>
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In article <1990Nov21.062510.25201@engin.umich.edu> gilgalad@caen.engin.umich.edu (Ralph Seguin) writes:
>In article <14917@cs.utexas.edu> osborn@cs.utexas.edu (John Howard Osborn) writes:
>>From the mouth of a NeXT employee this evening (20 Nov 90),
>>"The first 68040 systems shipped this afternoon."
>
>Highly dubious.  Could be developer 040 boxes, but regular machines are
>absolutely out of the question.  The 040 is NOT shipping in anything resembling
>production quantities.  If I'm wrong, then it will be a very pleasant surprise.

You are wrong.  Be surprised.  And they are customer boxes, not developer 
boxes.  (Customers that order many thousands of machines have a higher 
priority than developers now).  Motorolla is giving NeXT very small numbers
of chips, but the machines ARE SHIPPING.

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