The 68000 became the dominant CPU for Unix based workstations including Sun workstations and Apollo / Domain workstations, found its way into heralded computers such as the Apple Lisa and Macintosh, Amiga, Atari ST, and was used in the first generation of desktop laser printers including the original Apple Inc. LaserWriter and the HP LaserJet.

Software development company Microware developed the original OS-9 operating system ( not to be confused with the more recent Mac OS 9 ) for the 6809, later porting it to the 68000 and i386 series of microprocessors.

** Although the original 68000 CPU was designed by Motorola, there are many clones of this CPU found in the Neo Geo hardware.

Parts of the original Macintosh operating system were hand-translated into Motorola 68000 assembly language from the Pascal sources.

Implementations of the original 32-bit SPARC architecture were initially designed and used in Sun's Sun-4 workstation and server systems, replacing their earlier Sun-3 systems based on the Motorola 68000 family of processors.

The original design did not intend for CPU upgrade as the 68000 was soldered to the motherboard and there was no other connection for upgrade.

For example, the A608 board adds up to a maximum of 8 MB additional RAM by connecting over the original 68000.

The original MacPaint consisted of 5, 804 lines of Pascal computer code, augmented by another 2, 738 lines of 68000 assembly language.

The original 68000 had a 24-bit address bus and a 16-bit data bus.

The original Sun 1 was a single-board computer built around the Motorola 68000 microprocessor and introduced in 1982.

The original Fairlight CMI sampled using a resolution of 16 bits per sample at a rate of 24 kHz, and used two 8-bit Motorola 6800 processors ( later upgraded to the more powerful 16 / 32-bit Motorola 68000 ).

The original version was developed by Motorola as a general debugger for its 68000 systems — it was ported to the Mac as a programmer's tool early in the project's development.

As with the original Macintosh, the 512K was designed with no slots for upgrade boards, so the few internal upgrades that were available for the 512K had to plug directly into the 68000 processor socket.

The original, Motorola 68000 family, implementation of the Macintosh operating system implements system calls using that processor's illegal opcode exception handling mechanism.

This core replaced the physical 68000 CPU and the PIC chip from the original with his own TG68 CPU core on the FPGA.

Unlike the original 68000 used in the STs, the 68020 was capable of fetching a 32-bit value in one cycle, while the older STs took two cycles to fetch a 32-bit value.

Jack Kister ( born 1951 ) is an engineer who worked on the TTL model for the original 68000 microprocessor at Motorola.

The original Athlon ( now called Athlon Classic ) was the first seventh-generation x86 processor and, in a first, retained the initial performance lead it had over Intel's competing processors for a significant period of time.

The original Athlon also had the distinction of being the first desktop processor to reach speeds of one gigahertz ( GHz ).

The original microNOVA with the “ mN601 ” processor shipped in 1977.

As with the original Game Boy, it has an 8-bit processor.

The processor, which is a Z80 workalike made by Sharp with a few extra ( bit manipulation ) instructions, has a clock speed of approximately 8 MHz, twice as fast as that of the original Game Boy.

The Intel 8088, released in 1979, was a slightly modified chip with an external 8-bit data bus ( allowing the use of cheaper and fewer supporting logic chips ), and is notable as the processor used in the original IBM PC.

Only a few thousand systems using the original Merced Itanium processor were sold, due to relatively poor performance, high cost and limited software availability.

The original PDP-10 processor was the KA10, introduced in 1968.

* PDP-11 / 20 and PDP-11 / 15 — The original, non-microprogrammed processor ; designed by Jim O ' Loughlin.

This problem occurred only on some models of the original Pentium processor.

Intel's original 50mhz 486 processor faced difficulty in the market as many existing motherboards ( even non-VLB designs ) did not cope well with the increase in front side bus speed to 50mhz.

** The original Model 5150 IBM PC ( with a 4. 77 MHz Intel 8088 processor ) is released in the United States at a base price of $ 1, 565.

It used a 7. 16 MHz 8088-2 processor, had 384k of memory ( upgradeable to on the motherboard ), came with either one or two 5. 25 " internal floppy disk drives, had the light pen port ( not a serial port ) like the original Tandy 1000, and lacked the volume control and headphone jack of the TX ( also like the original 1000 ).

This is how application objects compiled on one processor family ( e. g., the original CISC AS / 400 48-bit processors ) could be moved to a new processor ( e. g., PowerPC 64-bit ) without re-compilation.

However, as processor speed and memory width increased, the limits of the original XT / AT bus design were soon reached, particularly when driving graphics video cards.

The processor speed and memory capacity of modern PCs are many orders of magnitude greater than they were for the original IBM PC and yet backwards compatibility has been largely maintained – a 32-bit operating system can still operate many of the simpler programs written for the OS of the early 1980s without needing an emulator, though an emulator like DOSBox now has near-native functionality at full speed.

The original x86 processor, the 8086, was in turn a non-strict extension of the 8080, therefore loosely resembling the original Datapoint 2200 design as well.

* Hardware support for floating-point operations: optional on the original IBM PC ; remained on a separate chip for Intel systems until the 80486DX processor.

32 of the original one-bit processors shared each numeric processor.

The original development system had an 8080 processor.

For example, the original IBM PC based on the Intel 8088 processor used many of these chips, and the prominence of IBM PC compatibles is why many of these chips are still in use today, although not as the chips themselves, but with their equivalent functionality embedded into larger VLSI chips, namely the " Southbridge " chips of modern PCs.

This NTSC / PAL compatibility gave the Amiga a distinct edge in uses such as television production or gaming, however since the original Amigas were unable to produce vertically high resolutioned displays without flickering this was unsuitable for other, office-like uses, where there's a need to work with clear high resolution image often for several hours in order to perform typical tasks.

However, SHAM remains the best available HAM mode on those Amigas with the original chipset.

WHDLoad also degrades the graphics hardware to OCS on original Amiga machines ( this function actually can work also on emulated Amigas, but only on newer versions of WinUAE which recognizes WHDLoad and preserves its interrupts ), then WHDLoad initializes all hardware with defined values and jumps into the Slave interface required for the program in question.