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From: a218@mindlink.UUCP (Charlie Gibbs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 68040 vs 80246 (Was Re: Xerox sues Apple!!!)
Message-ID: <819@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 17 Dec 89 20:30:21 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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In article <14102@grebyn.com> ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies)
writes:

>In article <6037@sun.acs.udel.edu> barry@sun.acs.udel.edu (Barry Fausnaugh)
>writes:
>
>>Not only that, but haven't a number of the 486 chips been recalled due to a
>>serious bug in the architecture or something like that.  I vaguely remember
>>reading that somewhere...have to see if I can drudge up the article.
>
>        Don't be too hasty; Motorola hasn't released the 68040 yet. They
>may accomplish the same thing Intel did, release a chip with a bug or
>two.

     I seem to recall that the 386 was released with bugs too.  As
for the 286, I hear that IBM went so far as to hardwire fixes that
depended on the bug being there, and Intel *couldn't* fix it later.

     I haven't heard similar stories about the 680x0 line, but of
course that doesn't mean that there have been no problems.  On the
other hand, maybe Motorola takes longer to get a chip out the door
because they work harder at getting the bugs out first.

     Intel seems to subscribe to the policy that it's better to be
first than to be best.  It doesn't seem to have hurt them much.  :-/

Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.UUCP
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