Re: Vaporware

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 1985 17:27

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> Of \course/ there's a 68020 bug list, the chip isn't even into
> production release yet!  They're still sending out evaluation
> samples.  You expected maybe the chip would be perfect the first
> time?  Give me a break!  The 68020 has only been sampling for a
> few months, how long has the 32016 (aka 16032) been out?

Bill, you have my complaint precisely backwards.  Of course there's
a bug list.  But for a while, trying to get Motorola to *admit* it
was a little difficult...  They were quite definitely trying to give
the impression that the chips were perfect on the first shot.  Ho ho.

By contrast, National has been very cooperative about supplying bug
lists.  It's the content of said lists that I could live without...
-- 
				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
				{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry

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