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From: rehrauer@apollo.HP.COM (Steve Rehrauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: A3000UX academic pricing (was Re: A3000UX at UniForum?)
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Date: 8 Feb 91 19:45:00 GMT
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In article <32529@auc.UUCP> rar@auc.UUCP (Rodney Ricks) writes:
>In article <1337@borg.cs.unc.edu> leech@vivaldi.cs.unc.edu (Jonathan Leech) writes:
>>                                              3x faster CPU,
>
>The 68040.  Is it fully debugged yet?  Give Motorola a chance to get the
>chip working right before expecting Commodore to release a system based
>on one.

Let's put it this way: (some companies') systems are being shipped now with
'040s in them.  If you call Moto, they would probably be happy to send you
a recent errata sheet for the chip.  If you open your box you can probably
spot a mask# on the chip (damn hard to miss an '040; that's one big chip),
and correlate that to the errata sheet.

Are they perfect yet?  Nope, but near enough to it.  The remaining bugs that
I'm aware of are mostly pretty obscure.  I've an '040 node humming in my
office with a chip from a few masks back, and it's pretty reliable.
--
"The goons are riding motorcycles, but WE'VE  | (Steve) rehrauer@apollo.hp.com
 got a whole big metal car! This will be like | The Apollo Systems Division of
 stepping on ants..." -- Freelance Police     |       Hewlett-Packard