Motorola 68000 family

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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.

All labels observed (37)

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Statements (75)

Predicate Object
instanceOf CISC architecture
microprocessor family
addressBusWidth 24-bit (original 68000)
architectureStyle CISC
bitArchitecture 16/32-bit
cpuCore Motorola 68000 family self-linksurface differs
surface form: Motorola 68000

Motorola 68000 family self-linksurface differs
surface form: Motorola 68008

Motorola 68000 family self-linksurface differs
surface form: Motorola 68010

Motorola 68000 family self-linksurface differs
surface form: Motorola 68012

Motorola 68000 family self-linksurface differs
surface form: Motorola 68020

Motorola 68000 family self-linksurface differs
surface form: Motorola 68030

Motorola 68000 family self-linksurface differs
surface form: Motorola 68040

Motorola 68000 family self-linksurface differs
surface form: Motorola 68060

Motorola 68000 family self-linksurface differs
surface form: Motorola 683xx

Motorola 68000 family self-linksurface differs
surface form: Motorola 68EC000

Motorola 68000 family self-linksurface differs
surface form: Motorola 68LC040
dataBusWidth 16-bit (original 68000)
designer Motorola
endianness big-endian
feature hardware support for multitasking
large linear address space
orthogonal instruction set
position-independent code support
separate supervisor and user modes
vectored interrupt system
influenced Motorola 68000 family self-linksurface differs
surface form: ColdFire architecture
instructionSetArchitecture Motorola 68000 family self-linksurface differs
surface form: Motorola 68000 ISA
introduced 1979
notableUsePeriod 1980s
early 1990s
registerWidth 32-bit general-purpose registers
successor Motorola 88000 family
supportedOperatingSystem AmigaOS
Atari ST
surface form: Atari TOS

Linux/m68k
Classic Mac OS
surface form: Mac OS (Classic)

NetBSD/mac68k
Sun Microsystems
surface form: SunOS (early versions)

UNIX variants
usedIn Apollo/Domain workstations
Apple Lisa
surface form: Apple Lisa 2/10 (via 68000)

original Macintosh 128K
surface form: Apple Macintosh 128K

Macintosh II series
surface form: Apple Macintosh II series

Macintosh LC
surface form: Apple Macintosh LC series

Apple Macintosh Performa series
Macintosh Plus
surface form: Apple Macintosh Plus

Macintosh Quadra
surface form: Apple Macintosh Quadra series

Macintosh SE
surface form: Apple Macintosh SE

Atari ST
surface form: Atari Falcon030

Atari ST
Atari ST
surface form: Atari STE

Atari ST
surface form: Atari TT030

Commodore Amiga 1000
Commodore Amiga 2000
Commodore Amiga 3000
Commodore Amiga 4000
Commodore Amiga 500
HP 9000 Series 200
HP 9000 Series 200
surface form: HP 9000 Series 300

Motorola VMEbus systems
Neo Geo AES
Neo Geo AES
surface form: Neo Geo MVS

Sega CD
Sega Mega Drive
surface form: Sega Genesis

Sega Mega Drive
Sharp X68000
SGI
surface form: Silicon Graphics IRIS 1000 series

Sun-1 workstation
Sun-2 workstation
Sun-3 workstation
arcade game boards
automotive control systems
embedded systems
industrial controllers
laser printers

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Referenced by (191)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Linux/m68k targetArchitecture Motorola 68000 family
this entity surface form: Motorola 68000
Linux/m68k targetArchitectureFamily Motorola 68000 family
this entity surface form: Motorola 680x0
Commodore Amiga 2000 cpu Motorola 68000 family
this entity surface form: Motorola 68000
Commodore Amiga 2000 cpuArchitecture Motorola 68000 family
Sun-3 workstation CPUFamily Motorola 68000 family
this entity surface form: Motorola 68000 series
Sun-3 workstation category Motorola 68000 family
this entity surface form: Motorola 680x0-based computers
Neo Geo AES cpu Motorola 68000 family
this entity surface form: Motorola 68000
HP 9000 Series 200 architecture Motorola 68000 family
Commodore Amiga 4000 cpuArchitecture Motorola 68000 family
this entity surface form: Motorola 680x0
Commodore Amiga 500 cpu Motorola 68000 family
this entity surface form: Motorola 68000
Commodore Amiga 500 cpuArchitecture Motorola 68000 family
Atari ST cpu Motorola 68000 family
this entity surface form: Motorola 68000
Atari ST cpuArchitecture Motorola 68000 family
Freescale Semiconductor notableProductFamily Motorola 68000 family
this entity surface form: ColdFire microcontrollers
AmigaOS architecture Motorola 68000 family
this entity surface form: Motorola 68000
Macintosh Quadra architecture Motorola 68000 family
this entity surface form: Motorola 680x0
Motorola 88000 family intendedSuccessorOf Motorola 68000 family
subject surface form: Motorola 88000
this entity surface form: Motorola 68000
Apple Macintosh Performa series cpuFamily Motorola 68000 family
this entity surface form: Motorola 680x0
Macintosh Portable cpu Motorola 68000 family
this entity surface form: Motorola 68000
Macintosh Portable architecture Motorola 68000 family
NeXTstation architecture Motorola 68000 family
this entity surface form: Motorola 680x0
System 4 platform Motorola 68000 family
this entity surface form: Motorola 68000
Mr. T cpu Motorola 68000 family
this entity surface form: Motorola 68000
Mr. T architecture Motorola 68000 family
NeXTcube cpuArchitecture Motorola 68000 family
Apple Macintosh team usedTechnology Motorola 68000 family
this entity surface form: Motorola 68000 microprocessor
Xerox Star system cpu Motorola 68000 family
this entity surface form: Motorola 68000
Macintosh 512K cpu Motorola 68000 family
this entity surface form: Motorola 68000
Twiggy floppy drive usedWith Motorola 68000 family
this entity surface form: Motorola 68000-based Lisa hardware
Lisa OS runsOn Motorola 68000 family
this entity surface form: Motorola 68000
Lisa OS architecture Motorola 68000 family
this entity surface form: Motorola 68000
LisaCalc runsOnHardware Motorola 68000 family
this entity surface form: Motorola 68000-based Apple Lisa
LisaGraph hardwareRequirement Motorola 68000 family
this entity surface form: Motorola 68000-based Apple Lisa
LisaTerminal runsOnHardware Motorola 68000 family
this entity surface form: Motorola 68000-based Apple Lisa
Macintosh XL cpu Motorola 68000 family
this entity surface form: Motorola 68000
Macintosh XL cpuArchitecture Motorola 68000 family
System 5 targetHardwareArchitecture Motorola 68000 family
this entity surface form: Motorola 68000
Macintosh Classic cpu Motorola 68000 family
this entity surface form: Motorola 68000
Macintosh SE/30 cpuArchitecture Motorola 68000 family
System 3 supportedProcessorArchitecture Motorola 68000 family
this entity surface form: Motorola 68000
System 6 architecture Motorola 68000 family
System 6 targetProcessor Motorola 68000 family
this entity surface form: Motorola 68000
System 7 (early versions) supportedArchitecture Motorola 68000 family
subject surface form: System 7
Amiga cpu Motorola 68000 family
UNIX System V architectureSupport Motorola 68000 family
this entity surface form: Motorola 68000
Xenix supportedArchitecture Motorola 68000 family
this entity surface form: Motorola 68000
PDP-11 influenced Motorola 68000 family
this entity surface form: Motorola 68000 architecture
Palm OS supportedCpuArchitecture Motorola 68000 family
this entity surface form: Motorola 68000
Human68k architecture Motorola 68000 family
this entity surface form: Motorola 68000
Human68k runsOn Motorola 68000 family
this entity surface form: X68000 CPU