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From: ron@motmpl.UUCP (Ron Widell)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: 80486 vs. 68040 code size
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Date: 18 May 89 19:34:16 GMT
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In article <922@aber-cs.UUCP> pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes:
>
>Also, the 68020 was introduced not much before the 386, and certainly the
>386 has been around far longer than the 68030. Or I am goofing?
>
You're goofing.
The 68020 was in customer's hands (with some erratum, i.e. bugs) through
normal distribution channels in 1984, about two years before the 386; and
was bug-free (as far as we could tell) in 1985.

The 030 and 386 are contemporaries. (within about six months)

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