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From: mse@natmlab.UUCP
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Subject: Re: 68020 shipments to Apple
Message-ID: <423@natmlab.OZ>
Date: Fri, 18-Apr-86 23:57:18 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 18 23:57:18 1986
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Organization: CSIRO Maths and Stats & Applied Physics, Sydney, Australia
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Summary: Where are all those '020s going?

In article <1292@oddjob.UUCP>, mrl@oddjob.UUCP (Scott R. Anderson) writes:
> In article <3179@ut-ngp.UUCP> osmigo1@ut-ngp.UUCP (Ron Morgan) writes:
> >I recently received word that Motorola has been shipping approx. 30,000
> >68020 microprocessors a month to Apple, ... 
> > ...
> This would be in line with rumors I heard the other day about the
> Jonathon ...

Well, I wonder.  Isn't Apple a believer in "Just-in-time" deliveries?  IF
such a quantity of expensive chips were going in one side of the factory,
I would expect to see fancy white boxes coming out the other side, and I
haven't heard of any.  On the other hand, I wouldn't be surprised to hear
that the big A ("no longer a startup") has lined up some suppliers for
the Jonathon.  

I don't like to see such unsubstantial rumors on the net.  Journalists are
supposed at least to quote "usually well-informed sources".  Can't we do
at least that well?

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