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MajorMattMason
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 Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 6:27 pm Post subject: Next Box Motorola question |
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Can anyone explain this chip's place in the Motorola 68040 family? It is in a Next Computer system. Specifically, what is the significance of the 'Sample A'?
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gshv
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It's an engineering or qualification sample of the chip, not the final production version. As such, it may have some bugs that were eliminated in production chips.
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MajorMattMason
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| Interesting... It made it onto a production line anyway. It's in a system that was used by a university computer science department for years. |
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gshv
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| MajorMattMason wrote: | | Interesting... It made it onto a production line anyway. It's in a system that was used by a university computer science department for years. |
If it was there from the beginning then it should be an early Next computer.
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