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From: jss@sjuvax.UUCP (Jonathan Shapiro)
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Subject: Re: vaporware
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Date: Wed, 21-Nov-84 20:25:56 EST
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[Aren't you hungry...?]

> Gee, the info I have is that Sun has had a 68020 for months now.  I would
> look for them to intro a 68020 board at Comdex next week, myself.

	I have heard that some folks got preliminary specs on the 68020 and
shipped them out to a commercial equivalent of the Stanford Fast Turnaround
Lab.  What they got back was a perfect 68020 emulator based on a risc chip
-- right down to the cycle timings, and apparently the thing ran better
than the real chip.  Apparently these folks marketed what they claimed was
a 68020 board with the ersatz edition until the real one came along.  The
catch was that the ersatz edition came out able to run at 24 Mhz....

	Well, it looked like a 68020, it felt like a 68020, it tested like a
68020, it tasted like a 68020... must have been a 68020?

Jon Shapiro