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From: davet@oakhill.UUCP (Dave Trissel)
Newsgroups: net.micro,net.rumor
Subject: Re: vaporware
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Date: Tue, 27-Nov-84 00:55:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 27 00:55:00 1984
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Summary: 

In article <671@sjuvax.UUCP> jss@sjuvax.UUCP (Jonathan Shapiro) writes:
>[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


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Austin, Texas                           David Trissel