Sep 25, 2023 · New contenders, such as the Power PC, ARM and MIPS take the 68000 family’s place. Not really - also you forget the NS32k family going away at the same time, being maybe …

The 68000 has instructions for reading or writing words (16 bits) and bytes. In the latter case, it needs to be able to tell the world which half of the databus it is reading or writing. According to …

The 68000 family was clearly designed with an eye towards high-level language programming. The architecture was 32-bit in concept, although the original implementations were 16-bit. It …

Oct 17, 2020 · The 68000 and 68020 are sometimes used where interrupt latency is less of a concern. 3: Ability to run at "micropower", ie. less than a milliwatt, in embedded applications …

May 13, 2017 · The 4 clock cycles per memory access was for instruction fetch and the 68000 could actually take longer. (Internal Architecture of 68000 was 3 16-bit Arithmetic Logic Units; …

Jul 18, 2019 · Both MOVE.b MOVE.w are two-word instructions. The 68000 actually knows both words before either instruction begins, so both can occur pretty much immediately but both …

Nov 14, 2020 · Motorola's 68000 was simply not ready at the time - and as well without second source (at the time) Zilog's Z8000 could have made it - except Zilog was (at that time) owned …

Jul 24, 2019 · For an 8Mhz 68000, there are 8,000,000 clock cycles per second. A bus cycle is the complete set of states that describes a bus interaction — most normally a read or write, …

Oct 29, 2020 · The 68000 was 16-bit externally but 32-bit internally: that is why the Atari machine that used it was called the ST, short for "sixteen/thirty-two". The first fully-32 bit 680x0 chip …

Oct 8, 2024 · 64-pin DIPs were available in the 80s: the Motorola 68000, introduced in 1979, came in a 64-pin DIP.When it was designed, this was pushing the envelope; quoting the …