Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rphroy!teemc!sycom!rkushner From: rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future Message-ID: Date: 10 Jun 91 05:05:30 GMT References: <5068@orbit.cts.com> <16647@darkstar.ucsc.edu><01dH!cmr@cs.psu.edu> Organization: Life In Hell BBS, Sterling Heights, MI Lines: 43 melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: > >In article rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) wri > > As far as I know, Motorolla doesn't even have 25Mhz 68040's in any kind of > mass production to meet market demands, why would they have an 50Mhz 68040 > any kind of mass production? > >According to MacWeek(6-04-91 pg. 5), Motorola shipped 50,000 68040's >in the first quarter. The 33MHz version will be available in the 3rd >quarter(going from a 25MHz to a 33MHz 040 is like adding 1 Amiga >blitter to your computer). The 50MHz 040 is due in 1Q 92. The >article also says that the 68050 will be available sometime next year. >It will double the performance of the 040 at the same clock speed. > Ah ha! Proof of an false claim on the net. As I suspected, no 50Mhz 68040 is shipping today, so that means that there is no 50Mhz 68040 boards out for the Mac...Plus, to me, 50,000 is not alot of units, NeXT alone probably sucked most of those up anyways, so like I stated, it is not in any kind of mass production to meet market demands. Lets say there is a million Mac owners wishing to upgrade to an 68040, it would take 20 quarters to product that many units! Lets say HP, Mac, NeXT, Commodore, Atari, and 3rd party hardware manufactures needed 500,000 CPU's. It would take 10 quarters to fill that demand, or TWO and a HALF years! Did they ever settle with Hitachi on that patent infringement lawsuit? Just wondering, if they were forced to yank the '030 off the market, production of the '040 still doesn't seem high enough to fill the void. I have not seen mention of Motorolla in the local papers since they had the restraining order lifted. HP is supposidly shipping one of thier '040 boxes with the '040 in a daughterboard that plugs into a 68050 socket, so when the 68050 is avaiable, its a matter of discarding the '040 and a direct plug in of the '050...Dunno if this is 100% correct, but thats the way it was explained to me.. -- C-UseNet V0.42d Ronald Kushner Life in Hell BBS +1 (313) 939-6666 P.O. Box 353 14400 USR HST V.42 & V.42bis Sterling Heights, MI 48311-0353 Complete Amiga Support UUCP: uunet!umich!vela!sycom!rkushner (We are not satanic, just NUTS!) DISCLAIMER: I say what I mean, and mean what I say.