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From: skipper@motaus.sps.mot.com (Skipper Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: How to beat a NeXT
Keywords: nexts, suck, unexpandible, slow
Message-ID: <1991Feb15.171709.53@motaus.sps.mot.com>
Date: 15 Feb 91 17:17:09 GMT
References: <1991Feb13.071047.16549@portia.Stanford.EDU> <18988@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1991Feb15.052723.19212@portia.Stanford.EDU>
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In article <1991Feb15.052723.19212@portia.Stanford.EDU> bard@jessica.stanford.edu (David Hopper) writes:
>In article <18988@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
>>In article <1991Feb13.071047.16549@portia.Stanford.EDU> bard@jessica.stanford.edu (David Hopper) writes:
>>
>>>Remember that NeXT helped Moto out quite a bit.  
>>
>>Really?  In what way?  
>
>I have heard (from a reliable source ;-) that Moto was pretty grateful for 
>NeXT's role in debugging the '040; grateful to the point of supplying a bunch
>(read: a BUNCH) of chips for free.
  It is fairly normal procedure to supply our good customers with BETA silicon
at no cost- after all, the only thing they can do with it is try to debug
their own systems; they can't make any money off of them.  As for the debugging
the '040- I can't tell you who is on our BETA site list or who provided us 
with bug reports, but what I can say is that we are grateful to all of our
customers that helped us work out the bugs from our silicon (and considering
the number of customers that we work with, I have a feeling that NeXT probably
didn't supply us with all that much- total- although perhaps they were able
to do a lot relative to size).
...
>
>>Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests"
>
>Dave Hopper      |      /// The Amiga:      | The great strength of the total-
>                 | __  ///                  | itarian state is that it forces
>bard@jessica.    | \\\/// The Cybernetic    | those who fear it to imitate it.
>   Stanford.EDU  |  \XX/ Revolution is NOW! |               --Adolph Hitler


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