Sep 25, 2023 · In the '80s and '90s the Intel x86 and Motorola 68000 families were the two leading microcomputer architectures in the 16-bit/32-bit personal computer scene. The 68000s …

Oct 17, 2020 · Why are old CPUs like MOS Technology 6502 and Motorola 68000 considered better for real time systems applications than modern x86 based CPUs? Because the persons …

Jul 6, 2023 · The Motorola 68000 has 16 (somewhat) general-purpose registers of 32 bits each, a generous complement by the standards of its day. I would expect these to take a significant …

The Zilog Z8000, Motorola 68000, and Intel 8086 all arrived at roughly the same time-frame and each represented the new 16-bit architecture of their respective CPU designers.

Jul 30, 2019 · According to Wikipedia, The Motorola 6800 was released in 1974. Between that and the release of the 6809 in 1979 (or 1978?) there was at least one other 6800-series CPU …

Jun 29, 2020 · In the 80s, the two great 16/32-bit desktop CPU architectures were the x86, used in the IBM PC and compatibles, and the 68000, used in the Amiga, Atari ST, Macintosh, early …

Jun 27, 2022 · While other 68k workstations did use two 68ks, I’m not sure the Sun-1 did. The architecture paper says “The original 68000 processor cannot fully recover from page faults …

Got a question about how the 68000 addresses memory. Wikipedia says: The 68000 has a 24-bit external address bus and two byte-select signals "replaced" A0. Here is an image of the chip's …

May 19, 2023 · After an MC68000 processor is released from reset, it fetches the initial stack pointer and initial program counter from the vector table at addresses 0-3 (for the SP) and …

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, …