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 Motorola 68040 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The FPU in the 68040 was thus made incapable of IEEE transcendental functions, which had been supported by both the 68881 and 68882 and were used by the popular fractal generating software of the time and little else.
Various versions were used in the Amiga and Apple Macintosh Quadra series of personal computers, as well as being used in a number of Workstations and later versions of the NeXT computers.
This article was originally based on material from the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, which is licensed under the GFDL.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/68040   (478 words)

  
 PDA Encyclopedia - Motorola 68000
Luckily it was used for the design of homecomputers like the Amiga and Atari.
As of 2001, the Dragonball versions of the processor are used in the popular Palm series of PDAs from Palm Computing and Handspring's Visor, though the architecture is being phased out in favor of the ARM processor core.
However, the instructions did more than Intel processors.
http://www.pdasupport.com/PDAencyclopediaMotorola68000.htm   (1984 words)

  
 QuikPak Systems
Like the later model it was a luggable system for computing on the move.
At first it was indicated the machine would be driven by a 68040 (the A4040L), but after Quikpak became an Amiga licensee this was downgraded to a 25 MHz 68030.
While Quikpak were still planning to purchase the Amiga (late 1996/early 1997) they announced a series of new Amigas that would form the first wave of Amiga systems.
http://amiga.emugaming.com/quiky.html   (511 words)

  
 The $299 2 GHz iMac '040
Motorola continued development, and the chip is now used in a wide variety of embedded and proprietary technologies.
This fact is not widely known because the chip is no longer used in the manufacture of consumer computers or peripherals.
Alas, the chip engineers at Motorola and IBM began to fall behind their rivals at Intel and AMD.
http://lowendmac.com/practical/02/0401.html   (1519 words)

  
 Preface of The Motorola Microprocessor Family
Today, anyone functioning or striving to function in a field of study that uses computers must understand this important 32-bit family of microprocessors.
More advanced material exists in chapters 11, 12, and 13, which expalin the operation and programming of the 68881/68882 numeric coprocessor and the advanced 68010, 68020, 68030, and 68040 microprocessor family members.
This text explains the operation, programming, and interfacing of the 68000 and 68008 in great depth.
http://users1.ee.net/brey/p6.htm   (1461 words)

  
 Motorola, Intel and a World Class IDIOT [rec.humor.funny]
Motorola, Intel and a World Class IDIOT [rec.humor.funny]
Anyway, as the individual staggered past he noticed the ``Intel Inside'' sticker on the 68040.
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http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/94q2/intelmoto.html   (968 words)

  
 Black Hole, Incorporated. - Premium NeXT Section !
The incredible number of transistors is required because the 68040 is actually four chips in one — a central processing unit, a floating point unit, a paged memory management unit, and 8 kilobytes of cache memory.
At the heart of the computer is a Motorola 68040 CPU, running at 25 MHz.
http://www.blackholeinc.com/specials/blackpremium.shtml   (3948 words)

  
 NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: 68k
The Motorola 680x0, 0x0, m68k, or 68k family of CISC microprocessor CPU chips were 32-bit from the start, and were the primary competition for the Intel x86 family of chips.
Should Motorola have decided to stick with the 680x0 series it is very likely that the next processor (68080) would have resembled Intel's P6 architecture.
There is also no revision of the 68060, as Motorola was in the process of shifting away from the 68k and 88k processor lines into its new PowerPC business, so the 68070 was never developed.
http://pedia.nodeworks.com/6/68/68K   (309 words)

  
 Motorola 68040 - FOLDOC Definition
The 68040 was used in the Apple Macintosh Quadra series of personal computers.
It also had split instruction and data caches of 4 kilobytes(?) each.
The 68040 (but not the 680EC40) was the first 680x0 family member with an on-chip FPU.
http://www.nightflight.com/foldoc-bin/foldoc.cgi?Motorola+68040   (83 words)

  
 NeXT Brochure - N6030
the heart of the computer is a Motorola
The floppy disk drive lets you store 2.88
http://www.channelu.com/NeXT/History/NeXTPub/N6030   (83 words)

  
 NetLingo.com Dictionary of Internet Terms: Online Definitions & Text Messaging
For example, the Intel Pentium and the Motorola 68040 chips handle the central management functions of a high-powered PC or Mac, respectively.
The most powerful microprocessor chip in your computer is the CPU.
Sometimes, the term CPU is used to describe the whole box, including the chip, the motherboard, the expansion cards, the disk drives, the power supply, and so on.
http://www.netlingo.com/lookup.cfm?term=CPU   (91 words)

  
 The Linux/m68k Home Pages
In addition, ports are underway (with varying levels of progress) to the HP 9000/300 series, the
Current releases of the m68k kernel are stable on the Amiga, Atari, many
Apple Macintosh models, and several VMEbus single-board computers from BVM, Motorola and
http://www.linux-m68k.org   (323 words)

  
 Microprocessor Report: The 68040: too much, too late? (Motorola's 68040 versus Intel's 80486 microprocessor)@ HighBeam ...
(Motorola's 68040 versus Intel's 80486 microprocessor)@ HighBeam Research
Microprocessor Report: The 68040: too much, too late?
http://www.highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:8355392&refid=holomed_1   (165 words)

  
 CPU-World: Motorola 68040 family
The microprocessor also features multiple independent execution pipelines and separate memory management units for instructions and data.
Major new features of the 68040 are bigger code and data caches (4 KB each) and integrated Floating Point Unit.
Some internal logic of the Motorola 68040 uses 2x clock frequency, but the processor cannot be considered as double-clocked.
http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/68040   (114 words)

  
 Motorola 6809 from FOLDOC
The 6809 was used in the UK "Dragon 32" personal computer and was followed by the Motorola 68000.
The 6809 was a major advance over both its predecessor, the Motorola 6800 and also over the 6502.
The 6809 had two 8-bit accumulators, rather than one in the 6502, and could combine them into a single 16-bit register.
http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?Motorola+6809   (226 words)

  
 Motorola 68LC040 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This makes it less expensive and draw less power.
The 68LC040 is a low cost version of the Motorola 68040 microprocessor with no FPU.
Although the CPU now fits into a feature chart more like the Motorola 68020, it continues to include the 040's caches and pipeline and is thus significantly faster than the '020.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_68LC040   (96 words)

  
 Motorola 68040 - OneLook Dictionary Search
Motorola 68040 : Free On-line Dictionary of Computing [home, info]
Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "Motorola 68040" is defined.
We found 2 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word Motorola 68040:
http://www.onelook.com/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/bware/dofind.cgi?word=Motorola+68040   (81 words)

  
 Computer History Museum - Timeline
A 32-bit, 25-MHz microprocessor, the 68040 integrated a floating-point unit and included instruction and data caches.
By 1978, more than 10 manufacturers were producing 5 1/4" floppy drives.
Combined with an enhanced bus interface unit, the microprocessor doubled the performance of the 386 without increasing the clock rate.
http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/timeline.php?timeline_category=cmpnt   (1997 words)

  
 Linux Links - The Linux Portal: Ports/Motorola
Debian 2.1 (slink) was released with full support for Atari, Amiga, and VMEbus platforms, and incomplete support for Macintoshes.
port of the Linux operating system to run on systems using Motorola's 68020, 68030, 68040 and 68060 microprocessors
Port of Linux to the Motorola Coldfire processors
http://www.linuxlinks.com/Ports/Motorola/index.shtml   (659 words)

  
 Using Old Disk Drive Motors
Just like an industrial manipulator, a medical robot or a haptic device, hobby robotics is about mechatronics, requiring skill in and passion about electromechanical design and software.
Most hobby robots, though not all, have a relatively simply microcontroller (such as Motorola's 68HC11, Parallax's Basic Stamp), rather than the typical high speed microprocessor found in industrial robot controllers (e.g.
Often, relatively inexpensive motors and sensors are found on these robots.
http://www.trueforce.com/Hobby_Robotics/Hobby_Robotics_Intro.htm   (431 words)

  
 NeXT
The early NeXT Computers (they were the cubes, but weren’t called NeXT Cube) had 68030 processors.
NeXTSTEP worked on 68030 as well as 68040.
operating system made by NeXT that runs on Intel/Cyrix/AMD Pentium, Intel 80486, and Motorola 68040.
http://www.osdata.com/oses/next.htm   (1014 words)

  
 Motorola 68050 from FOLDOC
For example, the Motorola 68010 was a Motorola 68000 with some minor enhancements and modifications to some user/superuser instruction assignments.
The 68050 would have been a 68040 with some bugs fixed, which didn't really warrant a new name so it was sold as a 68040.
The odd numbers (68010, 68030, 68050) were minor upgrades from the previous chip.
http://www.instantweb.com/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?Motorola+6805   (125 words)

  
 NeXT
They can be used for any instruction that is not specialised, that is, any instruction that doesn't require specific registers as operands.
Reproduction of all or part of this work is permitted for educational or research purposes provided that this copyright notice is included in any copy.
The Motorola 68040 chip has eighteen registers that are visible to the user.
http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~cs573/fall2002/notes/next/chap1.html   (840 words)

  
 DDC-I, Compilers and Real-time Operating Systems (RTOS) for Embedded Development
The following compilers are available for 68040 target environments.
TADS cross development systems offer high performance Ada for i960, 1750A and 68xxx processors.
http://www.ddci.com/products.php?target=68040   (92 words)

  
 Motorola 68060 from FOLDOC
The 68060 is probably the last development from Motorola in the high performacnce 680x0 series.
New developments here seem to integrate more peripheral functions on chip rather than increasing processing power.
It has 2 to 3 times the performance of the 68040.
http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/study/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?Motorola+68060   (114 words)

  
 Tektronix: Logic Analyzers > Motorola 68040, 68EC040, 68LC040 Processor Support
Tektronix: Logic Analyzers > Motorola 68040, 68EC040, 68LC040 Processor Support
Full speed state analysis up to 33 MHz
Support for the Motorola 68040, 68EC040 and 68LC040 processors.
http://www.tek.com/Measurement/logic_analyzers/bus_support/70982200   (203 words)

  
 Motorola
For semiconductor product information, contact Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
Freescale Semiconductor, Inc., formerly a Motorola Company, became a publicly traded company in July 2004 after more than 50 years as part of Motorola, Inc. 
© Copyright 1994-2005 Motorola, Inc. All rights reserved.
http://www.motorola.com/content/0,,5335,00.html   (41 words)

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