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From: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony)
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Subject: Re: Jobs in Boston
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Date: 4 Dec 90 02:43:55 GMT
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In article <6214@mace.cc.purdue.edu> asd@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Kareth) writes:
>In <57976@brunix.UUCP> agm@cs.brown.edu (Axel Merk) writes:
>
>>- 15,000 machines were on order at the announcements. This number has
>>  risen to about 20,000.
>>- About 2,500 machines will be shipped by the end of this year.
>
>2,500?????  At that rate, it'll be 7 months to fill all 20,000 orders!
>I sure hope this isn't true.  I'll be waiting forever for mine!  Or is
>this refering to total machines not machines and cpu upgrades?

In the InfoWorld from this week:
"Motorola shipped about 1000 units of the production version of its
68040 processor last week. Production will reach about 1000 units per
day in six to eight weeks, and Motorola will ship at least 250000 of
the chips in 1991[...]"

This explains that even that the production has started, it still does
not mean the chip is available in unlimited quantities.
The price of the processor alone is $595 in quantities of 1000. So the
upgrade is quite cheap.

Ronald
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