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From: torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie)
Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future
Message-ID: <1991Jun10.173733.29315@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Sender: torrie@neon.Stanford.EDU (Evan James Torrie)
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University, Ca , USA
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Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1991 17:37:33 GMT
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rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) writes:

>melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:
>>
>>According to MacWeek(6-04-91 pg. 5), Motorola shipped 50,000 68040's
>>in the first quarter.  The 33MHz version will be available in the 3rd
>>quarter(going from a 25MHz to a 33MHz 040 is like adding 1 Amiga
>>blitter to your computer).  The 50MHz 040 is due in 1Q 92.  The
>>article also says that the 68050 will be available sometime next year.
>>It will double the performance of the 040 at the same clock speed.
>>

>Mac...Plus, to me, 50,000 is not alot of units, NeXT alone probably sucked
>most of those up anyways, so like I stated, it is not in any kind of mass
>production to meet market demands. Lets say there is a million Mac owners
>wishing to upgrade to an 68040, it would take 20 quarters to product that many
>units! Lets say HP, Mac, NeXT, Commodore, Atari,  and 3rd party hardware
>manufactures needed 500,000 CPU's. It would take 10 quarters to fill that
>demand, or TWO and a HALF years!

  Assuming that production of the 040 is static.  Actually, the report
went on to say that they were producing 7,000 040's per week, and would
double that rate before the end of the year.  

>HP is supposidly shipping one of thier '040 boxes with the '040 in a
>daughterboard that plugs into a 68050 socket, so when the 68050 is avaiable,
>its a matter of discarding the '040 and a direct plug in of the '050...Dunno
>if this is 100% correct, but thats the way it was explained to me..

  I think you're one generation ahead of yourself.  HP had been shipping
their HP 9000/400 workstations with a 68030 in place, but a daughterboard
expansion for a 040.  

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