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I thought motorola did their own RISC chips, the 88000.
by tempguy9999 7y ago
I thought motorola did their own RISC chips, the 88000.
- kjs3 7y agoThey did for a short while, and it was the successor to the 68060 (the correct 'what if' is 'what if Motorola had continued the CISC 68k line instead of jumping on the RISC bandwagon). But in 1990 or so, Motorola joined with IBM and Apple to do PowerPC and dumped 88k, banking on (among other things) IBM and Apple to be solid customers in a crowded CPU market.
- protomyth 7y agoThey did two that I know of, the 88000 and M.Core. The 88000 had some issues (I do believe floating point) and was really expensive.