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    The Motorola 68040 ("sixty-eight-oh-forty") is a 32-bit microprocessor in the Motorola 68000 series, released in 1990. It is the successor to the 68030...
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    The Motorola 68060 ("sixty-eight-oh-sixty") is a 32-bit microprocessor from Motorola released in April 1994. It is the successor to the Motorola 68040 and...
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    68030 was the successor to the Motorola 68020, and was followed by the Motorola 68040. In keeping with general Motorola naming, this CPU is often referred...
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  • 32-bit) Motorola 68020 Motorola 68EC020 Motorola 68030 Motorola 68EC030 Generation three (pipelined) Motorola 68040 Motorola 68EC040 Motorola 68LC040...
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  • Another improvement over the 68020 was the addition of a data cache. The Motorola 68040 has improved per-clock performance compared to the 68030, as well as...
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    designed for the PDS slot in the Motorola 68030-based Macintosh SE/30, for example, would not work in the Motorola 68040-based Quadra 700. The one notable...
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    2 Extended or later CPU: 25 MHz 68040 with integrated floating-point unit Digital signal processor: 25 MHz Motorola DSP56001 RAM: 8 MB, expandable to...
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    Inc. from October 1991 to October 1995. The Quadra, named for the Motorola 68040 central processing unit, replaced the Macintosh II family as the high-end...
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    A4000/040 released in October 1992 with a Motorola 68040 CPU, and the A4000/030 released in April 1993 with a Motorola 68EC030. The Amiga 4000 system design...
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    The Motorola 68040, while not i486 compatible, was often positioned as its equivalent in features and performance. Clock-for-clock basis the Motorola 68040...
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    in-order dual instruction pipeline configuration, and the non-superscalar Motorola 68040 (1990) and MIPS R4000 (1991). Intel discontinued the P5 Pentium processors...
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    hundred") is an 8-bit microprocessor designed and first manufactured by Motorola in 1974. The MC6800 microprocessor was part of the M6800 Microcomputer...
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    Macintosh IIvx models. Apple retired the Macintosh II name when it moved to Motorola 68040 processors; the Centris and Quadra names were used instead. Unlike prior...
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    that this implied. By the mid-1990s, some CISC processors like the Motorola 68040 and Intel's 80486 and Pentium have performance parity with RISC in some...
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    it was originally released in small quantities in 1994 with a 25 MHz Motorola 68040 CPU, and re-released in greater numbers by Escom in 1995, after Commodore's...
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    processor hardware for the NeXTcube. The new computers, with the new Motorola 68040 processor, were cheaper and faster than their predecessors. In 1992...
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    20 MHz 68882, though these chips were indeed produced. Starting with the Motorola 68040, floating point support was included in the CPU itself. Sterling, Thomas;...
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    mass-produced. It was designed as a microprocessor peripheral, for the Motorola 6800, and it had to be initialized by the host. The S2811 was not successful...
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    The Motorola DSP56000 (also known as 56K) is a family of digital signal processor (DSP) chips produced by Motorola Semiconductor (later Freescale Semiconductor...
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    with the Smaky 400 in 1997. The Smaky 400 was a PCI board hosting a Motorola 68040 processor, designed to work together with a terminal emulation software...
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    first computers in the Quadra family of Macintosh computers using the Motorola 68040 processor. It is also the first computer from Apple to be housed in...
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    John Carmack developed the PC Game Doom on a NeXTStation Color. CPU: Motorola 68040, 25 MHz or 33 MHz (Turbo) Memory: 8 MB (12 MB for NeXTstation Color...
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    alongside the Quadra 900 as the first computers in the Quadra series using Motorola 68040 processor, in order to compete with IBM compatible PCs powered by the...
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    NeXTcube computer (1990) with microprocessor Motorola 68040 operated at 25 MHz and a digital signal processor Motorola 56001 at 25 MHz, which was directly accessible...
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    has the same mini-tower form factor as the Quadra 800, with a faster Motorola 68040 processor. The Quadra 840AV was discontinued shortly after the introduction...
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    dependency upon a single CPU vendor at a time when Motorola was falling behind on delivering the 68040 CPU. Furthermore, Apple had conducted its own research...
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    The Motorola 68000 (sometimes shortened to Motorola 68k or m68k and usually pronounced "sixty-eight-thousand") is a 16/32-bit complex instruction set...
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    System: NeXTSTEP, OPENSTEP CPU: 33 MHz 68040 with integrated floating-point unit Digital Signal Processor: 25 MHz Motorola DSP56001 RAM: 16 MB, expandable to...
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    68040 Use Pipelining To Speed Up Performance". InfoWorld: 39. May 8, 1989. MC68010/MC68012 16-/32-Bit Virtual Memory Microprocessors (PDF). Motorola Semiconductor...
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    to the logic board and an FPU-less Motorola 68LC040 CPU, and one with 8 MB of logic board RAM, a full Motorola 68040, and an onboard AAUI port for Ethernet...
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