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From: cohill@vtserf.cc.vt.edu (Andrew M. Cohill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: 68040 for the Mac?
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Date: 9 Jan 91 17:56:27 GMT
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I've read in the past that the main reason Apple has not released an
'040 machine is that Motorola is not able to ship '040 chips in the
quantities that Apple would need--thousands per month.

NeXt, on the other hand, probably only needs a few hundred a month, and
Motorola can satisfy that with early, low-yield fabrication problems.
Hence, NeXT seems to be farther ahead than Apple.
-- 
|          ...we have to look for routes of power our teachers never       
|              imagined, or were encouraged to avoid.   T. Pynchon          
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|Andy Cohill        cohill@vtserf.cc.vt.edu            VPI&SU