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From: jimt@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (Jim Trivellas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k
Subject: Re: Official 68040 announcement
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Date: 17 Dec 90 18:40:55 GMT
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Reply-To: jimt@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (Jim Trivellas)
Organization: Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of Melbourne
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>Does anybody know if Commodore has talked to Motorola about making an
>Amiga with the 68040 chip?
>I read that the Amiga3000 can be upgraded to it right now, is this correct?

Well I've been trying to find out the same thing for a while now.  As far as
I know (correct me if I'm wrong) there is no '040 upgrade for the A3000 as yet.
However there has been some chit-chat about a '040 board that plugs into the
A3000's special CPU slot (not the CPU socket, since the '030 is Surface-Mounted
  Thus the '030 will remain on the motherboard with the '040 taking over). I
 presume these boards will become readily  available once Motorola produces
the '040s in large quantities.

If you read the comp.sys.amiga newsgroup, you might have seen an article that
I posted a while back, regarding the Amiga 3500.  At that time, the A3500
was supposed to be in the final development stage, and according to AUI
magazine, it was to be based on a 68030 @ 50Mhz.  In fact some people wrote
to me, stating that they have actually seen it.  However, only yesterday I 
heard that plans for the A3500 had been changed, and indeed it will be based
on a 68040 @ 25Mhz.  I suppose all this competition from the NeXT systems is
having an effect on most computer manufacturers !!!  So, we might see something
around February 1991. I' eagerly waiting for one myself. 
(I must stress that these are only rumours, but you never know!!!)

		Regards,	Jim.

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  Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering.
  School of Information Technology & Electrical Engineering.
  The University of Melbourne, Parkville 3052, Victoria, Australia.
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