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From: ritchie@hpldola.HP.COM (Dave Ritchie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 68030 and 68040 specs
Message-ID: <11800001@hpldola.HP.COM>
Date: 8 Feb 88 04:19:30 GMT
References: <30785R38@PSUVM>
Organization: HP Elec. Design Div. -ColoSpgs
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>In article <1432@sugar.UUCP> ssd@sugar.UUCP (Scott Denham) writes:
>> In PC-Week several weeks ago Spencer Katt reported some interesting 
>> rumors about work going on at Apple with prototypes of the '040. According
>> to this source, the chip will include full on-chip emulation of the Intel
>> '286 instruction set as one sub-mode.
>
>I consider this proof positive that Spencer Katt has a serious drug problem.
>Consider the amount of money that NEC is spending on the lawsuit with Intel
>over the V series, and they even had a license to make 8086s ! 

  Don't be too quick here... I saw a Motorola ad in one of the trade rags
(probably Electronics or EE Times) recently that made the claim of MS-DOS
compatibility for one of their upcomimg processors. I guess this means that
we have to nuke both Pheonix and Santa Clara now :->

				Dave Ritchie
				hp-lsd!ritchie