Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site l5.uucp Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!well!l5!gnu From: gnu@l5.uucp (John Gilmore) Newsgroups: net.micro.atari Subject: Re: buggy CPU chips? Message-ID: <236@l5.uucp> Date: Wed, 30-Oct-85 08:53:38 EST Article-I.D.: l5.236 Posted: Wed Oct 30 08:53:38 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 1-Nov-85 02:58:17 EST References: <396@ssc-bee.UUCP> <213@l5.uucp> <1584@hammer.UUCP> <136@sdcc7.UUCP> Followup-To: net.flame Organization: Nebula Consultants in San Francisco Lines: 23 In article <1584@hammer.UUCP>, coryb@hammer.UUCP (Cory Barker) writes: > Yes, the 32000 series does have a few minor bugs left in current > revisions, however I would not refer to them as buggy. The 68020 on > the other hand... (He must have left the ... because he didn't know the answer. Here it is:) Motorola tells me that the bug list on the 68010 is zip, null, zero -- and after working with it for years, I believe it. It's a production chip. After close to a year of work with 68020's, the last bug list I saw (August) had three or four things, all minor, and I have every confidence that these will be gone within a few months (if not already). None of these affects user code or compilers. Let me hear you say the same things about National's chips...after canceling a whole product line because they didn't work. PS: Not to run down National; they make great jellybean chips, and their PALs are OK.