Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!news.funet.fi!cc.tut.fi!cc.tut.fi!n67786 From: n67786@lehtori.tut.fi (Nieminen Tero) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: 68040 for the Mac? Message-ID: Date: 13 Jan 91 03:03:45 GMT References: <6860@crash.cts.com> Sender: n67786@cc.tut.fi (Nieminen Tero) Organization: Tampere Univ. of Technology, Finland. Lines: 22 In-Reply-To: uzun@pnet01.cts.com's message of 12 Jan 91 02:36:01 GMT In article <6860@crash.cts.com> uzun@pnet01.cts.com (Roger Uzun) writes: There is currently NO 50 Mhz 68040 available at any price. Any such card, to be reliable, will have to wait for a 50 Mhz part. The 33 Mhz 68040 should be shipping by 1992, so you guess when a 50 Mhz part will be available. The 50 MHz 68040 is certainly available, since the first ever delivered computer using the Motorola 68040 was parallel super computer that was sold to England, and it had 25 68040 cpus. This computer was delivered much earlier than the even the first 040 NextStations. I wouldn't bet on the number of available chips though. Of course a 25 Mhz 68040 will perform better than a 50 Mhz 030, maybe they are eluding to that, they certainly will not be shipping any 50 Mhz 040 boards soon! -Roger -- Tero Nieminen Tampere University of Technology n67786@cc.tut.fi Tampere, Finland, Europe