Early CPU accelerator cards feature full 32-bit CPUs of the 68000 family such as the Motorola 68020 and Motorola 68030, almost always with 32-bit memory and usually with FPUs and MMUs or the facility to add them.

It was also available on some non-IBM compatible machines such as Motorola 68k-based Apollo ( 68020 ) and Amiga 3000 ( 68030 ) workstations, the short-lived AT & T Hobbit and later PowerPC based BeBox.

After 1982, Motorola devoted more attention to the 68020 and 88000 projects.

The Motorola 68020 is a 32-bit microprocessor from Motorola, released in 1984.

In keeping with naming practices common to Motorola designs, the 68020 is usually referred to as the ' 020, pronounced oh-two-oh or oh-twenty ".

Motorola 68020

It is a lower cost version of the Motorola 68020.

The 68030 was the successor to the Motorola 68020, and was followed by the Motorola 68040.

( For information on Motorola's multiprocessing model with the 680x0 series, see Motorola 68020.

Motorola had intended the EC variant for embedded use, but embedded processors during the 68040's time did not need the power of the 68040, so EC variants of the 68020 and 68030 continued to be common in designs.

Although the CPU now fits into a feature chart more like the Motorola 68020, it continues to include the 68040's caches and pipeline and is thus significantly faster than the 68020.

Similarly, the Motorola 68030 was a process improvement on the 68020 with the MMU and a small data cache ( 256 bytes ) moved on-chip.

These FPUs, the 68881 and 68882, were common in Motorola 68020 / 68030-based workstations like the Sun 3 series.

** Motorola 68020

Motorola mainly used even numbers for major revisions to the CPU core such as 68000, 68020, 68040 and 68060.

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Despite this, unofficial CPU upgrades include the Motorola 68010, 68020 ( at up to 25 MHz ), and 68030 ( at up to 50 MHz ).

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VLSI VI475 MMU " Apple HMMU " from the Macintosh II used with the Motorola 68020

In some early microprocessor designs, memory management was performed by a separate integrated circuit such as the VLSI VI475 or the Motorola 68851 used with the Motorola 68020 CPU in the Macintosh II or the Z8015 used with the Zilog Z80 family of processors.

* 1973 – Martin Cooper of Motorola made the first handheld mobile phone call to Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs, though it took ten years for the DynaTAC 8000X to become the first such phone to be commercially released.

* 1996 – The Motorola StarTAC, the first flip phone and one of the first mobile phones to gain widespread consumer adoption, goes on sale.

* MOS Technology 6501 – CPU pin-compatible with Motorola 6800

* January 3 – Motorola introduces the Motorola StarTAC Wearable Cellular Telephone, the world's smallest and lightest mobile phone at that time.

* September 25 – Paul Galvin and his brother Joseph incorporate the Galvin Manufacturing Corporation ( now known as Motorola ).

The first version (" OS-9 Level One "), which dates back to 1979 – 80, was written in assembly language for the Motorola 6809 CPU, and provided a single 64 KB address space in which all processes ran.

* Bill Smith ( Motorola engineer ) ( 1929 – 1993 ), one of the creators of Six Sigma

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* 1995 – Motorola ( later to become Freescale ) initiates work on MRAM development

* Edward D. Breen – GCC Board of Trustees member ; CEO of Tyco ; former president / chief operating officer of Motorola ; former chairman / CEO of General Instrument

In the current market a cable operator is locked into either Motorola or Scientific Atlanta for 10 – 20 years when they make the capital investment to use either system for their digital cable operations.

In 1999 – 2000 and 2000 – 2001 it was known as the " Hilton League ", in 2001 – 2002 and 2002 – 2003 it was the " Motorola League ", and in 2003 – 2004 it was sponsored by China Unicom.

In order to stop continual system crashes caused by this issue, System 6 and earlier running on a 68020 or a 68030 would force the CPU into 24-bit mode, and would only recognize and address the first 8 megabytes of RAM, an obvious flaw in machines whose hardware was wired to accept up to 128MB RAM – and whose product literature advertised this capability.