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Subject: Re: Byte review. 386 v '020
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Date: Mon, 24-Aug-87 09:37:26 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 24 09:37:26 1987
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> to the 80386 would probably be the 68030 which is just going into production
> and will begin appearing in Suns, Macs, Apollos, etc. after the first of the
> year.

Perhaps I am mistaken, but my local Motorola Field Engrs told me that
the '030 will not be in production until the first of the year.  They claimed
that the first sampling was scheduled for end of summer.  This would seem
to say that '030 systems will not really be showing up until late next spring;
there is no telling where 80386 (and its offspring) will be by then..

As for showing up in new industry iron, I thought Sun went with their
Sparc RISC chip (with promises to upgrade the existing Sun-3 line to
68030 "sometime in the future"), and Apollo was going AMD29000 - 
thus just jumping ahead to Supercomputing workstations rather than
bothering about the next incremental speed change in 680?0.

					Rick Spanbauer
					SUNY/Stony Brook