Motorola 68010
E300230
The Motorola 68010 is a 16/32-bit CISC microprocessor, an enhanced and more efficient successor to the Motorola 68000 widely used in early workstations and computers.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Motorola 68010 canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1810296 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Motorola 68010 Context triple: [HP 9000 Series 200, cpu, Motorola 68010]
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A.
Motorola 68020 microprocessor
The Motorola 68020 microprocessor is a 32-bit CISC CPU introduced in the early 1980s that powered many workstations, servers, and Apple Macintosh computers, offering enhanced performance and features over its 68000-series predecessors.
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B.
Motorola 68851
The Motorola 68851 is an external paged memory management unit (MMU) designed to work with Motorola 68020 processors, providing advanced virtual memory and protection features.
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C.
Motorola 68881
The Motorola 68881 is a floating-point coprocessor for Motorola 68000-series CPUs, providing hardware-accelerated arithmetic operations for improved performance in computing systems.
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D.
Motorola 68030 microprocessor
The Motorola 68030 microprocessor is a 32-bit CISC CPU from Motorola's 680x0 family, widely used in late-1980s and early-1990s workstations, servers, and personal computers such as early Apple Macintosh models.
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E.
Motorola 68000 family
The Motorola 68000 family is a line of 16/32-bit CISC microprocessors widely used in early personal computers, workstations, and game consoles during the 1980s and early 1990s.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Motorola 68010 Target entity description: The Motorola 68010 is a 16/32-bit CISC microprocessor, an enhanced and more efficient successor to the Motorola 68000 widely used in early workstations and computers.
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A.
Motorola 68020 microprocessor
The Motorola 68020 microprocessor is a 32-bit CISC CPU introduced in the early 1980s that powered many workstations, servers, and Apple Macintosh computers, offering enhanced performance and features over its 68000-series predecessors.
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B.
Motorola 68851
The Motorola 68851 is an external paged memory management unit (MMU) designed to work with Motorola 68020 processors, providing advanced virtual memory and protection features.
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C.
Motorola 68881
The Motorola 68881 is a floating-point coprocessor for Motorola 68000-series CPUs, providing hardware-accelerated arithmetic operations for improved performance in computing systems.
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D.
Motorola 68030 microprocessor
The Motorola 68030 microprocessor is a 32-bit CISC CPU from Motorola's 680x0 family, widely used in late-1980s and early-1990s workstations, servers, and personal computers such as early Apple Macintosh models.
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E.
Motorola 68000 family
The Motorola 68000 family is a line of 16/32-bit CISC microprocessors widely used in early personal computers, workstations, and game consoles during the 1980s and early 1990s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
16/32-bit microprocessor
ⓘ
CISC microprocessor ⓘ microprocessor ⓘ |
| addressBusWidth | 24-bit ⓘ |
| addressRegisters | 8 address registers (A0–A7) ⓘ |
| addressSpace | 16 MB ⓘ |
| architecture | Motorola 68000 architecture ⓘ |
| binaryCompatibleWith |
Motorola 68000 family
ⓘ
surface form:
Motorola 68000
|
| busErrorHandling | restartable bus cycle ⓘ |
| compatibleOperatingSystems |
SunOS
ⓘ
surface form:
SunOS (early versions)
UNIX variants ⓘ early BSD Unix ⓘ |
| dataBusWidth | 16-bit external ⓘ |
| family | Motorola 68000 family ⓘ |
| generalPurposeRegisters | 8 data registers (D0–D7) ⓘ |
| hasLoopMode | true ⓘ |
| improvementOver68000 |
better support for virtual memory
ⓘ
performance enhancements ⓘ restartable instructions on bus fault ⓘ |
| instructionSet | 68000 instruction set ⓘ |
| introductionPeriod | early 1980s ⓘ |
| loopModeDescription | hardware loop for short instruction sequences ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Motorola ⓘ |
| marketPosition | enhanced 68000 for systems needing virtual memory ⓘ |
| microarchitecture | CISC ⓘ |
| pinCompatibleWith |
Motorola 68000 family
ⓘ
surface form:
Motorola 68000
|
| predecessor |
Motorola 68000 family
ⓘ
surface form:
Motorola 68000
|
| processTechnology | NMOS ⓘ |
| registerSet | 16 32-bit registers ⓘ |
| stackPointer | A7 ⓘ |
| statusRegisterWidth | 16-bit ⓘ |
| successor |
Motorola 68020 microprocessor
ⓘ
surface form:
Motorola 68020
|
| supports |
position-independent code
ⓘ
privileged and user modes ⓘ |
| supportsAutovectorInterrupts | true ⓘ |
| supportsExceptionProcessing | true ⓘ |
| supportsRestartableInstructions | true ⓘ |
| supportsVirtualMemory | true ⓘ |
| typicalClockFrequencies |
10 MHz
ⓘ
8 MHz ⓘ |
| usedFor |
embedded systems
ⓘ
high-end personal computers (1980s) ⓘ workstations ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Amiga 1000 accelerator boards
ⓘ
Apollo/HP workstations ⓘ
surface form:
Apollo workstations
Atari ST accelerator boards ⓘ HP 9000 Series 200 ⓘ Sun-2 workstation ⓘ
surface form:
Sun-2 workstations
early Unix workstations ⓘ |
| wordSize | 32-bit internal ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Motorola 68010 Description of subject: The Motorola 68010 is a 16/32-bit CISC microprocessor, an enhanced and more efficient successor to the Motorola 68000 widely used in early workstations and computers.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Motorola 68020