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From: thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k
Subject: Re: Official 68040 announcement
Message-ID: <37109@cup.portal.com>
Date: 20 Dec 90 12:30:06 GMT
References: <6296@munnari.oz.au>
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jimt@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (Jim Trivellas) in <6296@munnari.oz.au> writes:

	[...]
	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.
	[...]

Naw, I think they were a bit shook up when I invited them to show their SVR4
Amiga-based system at a recent Silicon Valley AT&T UNIX Users' Group meeting
(of which I'm the president) the same evening that UNISYS *did* show their
68040 system (and also at which Tyan showed their '486 SVR4)!  :-)

I've been promised by CBM they WILL show their '040 SVR4 at one of our meetings
early next year AFTER that machine becomes an officially-announced product.

Actually, one Amiga 3rd-party mfr has shown ONE 68040 card for the A3000 at
a recent Amiga-related show per reports in some of the mags.

And let's just say, in closing, that a 68040 runs circles around '486 machines
I've seen.  Let's just hope Motorola hasn't lost a window of opportunity by
the late release of the '040 (compared to the '486); I have to respect Motorola
for waiting until the chip worked correctly.

Here (in Silicon Valley) Intel is known as "First with the Worst", and their
premature release of the '486 again proved that saying.   :-)

Thad Floryan [ thad@cup.portal.com (OR) ..!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad ]