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From: tomj@oakhill.UUCP (Tom Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Processors--68000 and others
Keywords: 68010 Release Date
Message-ID: <1537@oakhill.UUCP>
Date: 7 Oct 88 13:41:07 GMT
References: <5.2348DA1A@mailcom.UUCP> <9790@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: tomj@oakhill.UUCP (Tom Johnson)
Organization: Motorola Inc., Austin Tx.
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In article <9790@cup.portal.com> Michael_J_Ward@cup.portal.com writes:
>With reference to a message from a person at Moto high-end marketing, the
>reason the first Macintosh used the vanilla 68000 is that there weren't
>any 68010's at the time. In fact, the prototype Mac used the first plastic
>68000 to escape the Moto factory.
>     Now, I do need to ask the release date of the 68010. How does it
>compare with the release date of the Mac?

The 68010 was released for full quanitity production in December of 1982.
Certain customers of course could get sample quanitites quite a bit earlier.

tomj@oakhill.UUCP