Based on the Motorola 68000 family of microprocessors, the machine sports a custom chipset with graphics and sound capabilities that were unprecedented for the price, and a pre-emptive multitasking operating system called AmigaOS.

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.

The Atari ST was part of the 16 / 32 bit generation of home computers, based on the Motorola 68000 CPU noted for 128 kB of RAM or more, a graphical user interface, and 3½ " microfloppy disks as storage.

A PDP-10, a PDP-8, an Intel 386, an Intel 4004, a Motorola 68000, a System z mainframe, a Burroughs B5000, a VAX, a Zilog Z80000, and a 6502 all vary wildly in the number, sizes, and formats of instructions, the number, types, and sizes of registers, and the available data types.

Motorola / Freescale Semiconductor's DragonBall, or MC68328, is a microcontroller design based on the famous 68000 core, but implemented as an all-in-one low-power solution for handheld computer use.

The first field is either the Motorola 68000 exception number that occurred ( if a CPU error occurs ) or an internal error identifier ( such as an ' Out of Memory ' code ), in case of a system software error.

GDB target processors ( as of 2003 ) include: Alpha, ARM, AVR, H8 / 300, System / 370, System 390, X86 and its 64-bit extension X86-64, IA-64 " Itanium ", Motorola 68000, MIPS, PA-RISC, PowerPC, SuperH, SPARC, and VAX.

Some of IBM's engineers and other employees wanted to use the IBM 801 processor, some would prefer the new Motorola 68000, while others argued for a small and simple microprocessor, such as the MOS Technology 6502 or Zilog Z80, which had been used in earlier personal computers.

MINIX 1. 5, released in 1991, included support for MicroChannel IBM PS / 2 systems and was also ported to the Motorola 68000 and SPARC architectures, supporting the Atari ST, Commodore Amiga, Apple Macintosh and Sun SPARCstation computer platforms.

The Motorola 68000 is a 16 / 32-bit CISC microprocessor core designed and marketed by Freescale Semiconductor ( formerly Motorola Semiconductor Products Sector ).

The 68000 grew out of the MACSS ( Motorola Advanced Computer System on Silicon ) project, begun in 1976 to develop an entirely new architecture without backward compatibility.

Tom Gunter, retired Corporate Vice President at Motorola, is known as the " Father of the 68000.

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

The ROM and Mac OS operating system released with the new Power Mac machines included an Mac 68K emulator to enable programs written for Motorola 68k series CPUs, including nearly all prior Mac software, to run without changes.

One of them was the HP Series 300 of Motorola 68000-based workstations, another Series 200 line of technical workstations based on a custom silicon on sapphire ( SOS ) chip design, the SOS based 16-bit HP 3000 classic series and finally the HP 9000 Series 500 minicomputers, based on their own ( 16 and 32-bit ) FOCUS microprocessor.

The PowerBook 190, released in 1995, bears no resemblance to the rest of the PowerBook 100 series, and is in fact simply a Motorola 68LC040-based version of the PowerBook 5300 ( and the last Macintosh model to utilize a Motorola 68k-family processor ).

1994 saw the introduction of the Motorola 68LC040-based PowerBook 500 series, code-named Blackbird.

SGI's first generation products, starting with the IRIS 1000 ( Integrated Raster Imaging System ) series of high-performance graphics terminals, were based on the Motorola 68000 family of microprocessors.

The height of the machines using Motorola CPUs was reached with the IRIS 3000 series ( somewhere around 1989, models 3010 / 3020 / 3030 and 3110 / 3115 / 3120 / 3130, the 30s both being full-size rack machines ).

Originally the peripheral processors were to be Intel 8086, but those proved inadequate and the system was introduced with Motorola 68000 series processors.

Earlier versions of HP-UX supported the HP Integral PC and HP 9000 Series 200, 300, and 400 computer systems based on the Motorola 68000 series of processors, as well as the HP 9000 Series 500 computers based on HP's proprietary FOCUS processor architecture.

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

With the 68040, Motorola integrated the FPU and CPU, but like the x86 series, a lower cost 68LC040 without an integrated FPU was also available.

Motorola released a series of single-board computers, known as the MVME series, for building " out of the box " systems based on the 88000, as well as the Series 900 stackable computers employing these MVME boards.

Had Motorola decided to continue the 680x0 series, the next processor ( 68080 ) would likely have resembled Intel P6 architecture.

XScale microprocessors can be found in products such as the popular RIM BlackBerry handheld, the Dell Axim family of Pocket PCs, most of the Zire, Treo and Tungsten Handheld lines by Palm, later versions of the Sharp Zaurus, the Motorola A780, the Acer n50, the Compaq iPaq 3900 series and many other PDAs.

The Macintosh II was followed by a series of related models including the Macintosh IIx and Macintosh IIfx, all of which used the Motorola 68030 processor.

Motorola developed several improved series, with MECL II in 1966, MECL III in 1968 with 1 nanosecond gate propagation time and 300 MHz flip-flop toggle rates, and the 10, 000 series ( with lower power consumption and controlled edge speeds ) in 1971.

Beginning with the Macintosh II and culminating in the Macintosh IIfx, the Mac II series was Apple Computer's high-end line from 1987 until the introduction of the Motorola 68040-based Macintosh Quadra computers in 1991.

The Mac II series were the first Macintosh models to use a m68k processor other than the Motorola 68000.

Squelch tones typically come from one of three series as listed below along with the two character PL code used by Motorola to identify tones.

The Macintosh Quadra series is Apple Computer's product family of professional high-end Apple Macintosh personal computers built using the Motorola 68040 CPU.

Although the 7400 series was the first de facto industry standard TTL logic family to be second-sourced by several semiconductor companies, there were earlier TTL logic families such as the Sylvania SUHL ( Sylvania Universal High-level Logic ) family, Motorola MC4000 MTTL family ( not to be confused with RCA CD4000 CMOS ), the National Semiconductor DM8000 family, Fairchild 9300 series, and the Signetics 8200 family.