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From: greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Greg Harp)
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Subject: Re: A3000UX academic pricing (was Re: A3000UX at UniForum?)
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Date: 8 Feb 91 23:56:01 GMT
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In article <1991Feb8.180341.22098@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu
  (Ethan Solomita) writes:
>	The NeXT has a final version of the 040. NeXT is the only
>company currently receiving the 040 because they did all the
>debugging for Motorola, kinda an inside deal. If there are any
>bugs in it, they will be in everyone's.

Uh, no offense, but I have it from a Motorola person (here in Austin were the
040 _is_) that there are still bugs in the chip.  Apparently its possible to
take an 040 NeXT down in flames with some pretty simple floating-point math.
I'm not talking a core dump or segmentation fault.  I'm talking Ka-BOOM.
Maybe I'll test that if I get access to one [ :-) ].

If I was going to buy a NeXT, I'd wait until Motorola starts shipping in 
volume.  They're really strict about releasing working chips.  Have you ever
wondered why they would hold out on shipping volume amounts of the 040 when
everyone-and-their-dog wants one?  Makes ya think about it, eh?

>	-- Ethan

Greg

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