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From: smaug@eng.umd.edu (Kurt Lidl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Commodore and 68040
Keywords: Commodore 68040 EE TIMES
Message-ID: <1990Feb1.071944.7706@eng.umd.edu>
Date: 1 Feb 90 07:19:44 GMT
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In article <201@modcomp.UUCP> srp@modcomp.UUCP (Steve Pietrowicz) writes:
>In the Jan. 29, 1990 issue of EE Times, there's an ad from Motorola
>listing companies that will be supporting the 68040.  Commodore's in 
>that list.  Interestingly enough, Apple isn't.

Interestingly enough, the Motorola booth at the UniForum show had
a sample  of the '040 under a microscope, so we could all "ooohhh" and
"aahhhh" at it :-)

The '040 doc that they were giving away listed *both* Apple and
Commodore as having development systems or something like that
for the '040.

The Commodore person (Keith Gabryelski) showing off SysVR4 unix on
the '030 equipped Amiga refused to comment on any products that
Commodore may or may not be developing.  Sometimes those wacky
Commodore guys are just *no* fun.  :-)

And yes, indeed, the unix ran, X11 ran, and the multiple screen support
on the Moniterm monitor that they had running was really neato-keen.

The last issue of Byte has a little article on the '040, but it makes
it sound ho-hum, even though we all know the truth.  Byte made the
'486 sound like the best thing since sliced bread when it was
introduced.  Such is the life of a computer rag gone bad.
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