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I thought I knew a lot about 68k processors, but "88k" is new to me. It turns out to be the Motorola 88100¹, which was used in Unisys servers running Unix. ¹h

I thought I knew a lot about 68k processors, but "88k" is new to me. It turns out to be the Motorola 88100¹, which was used in Unisys servers running Unix. ¹https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_88100 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_88100

kalleboo 4y ago
I only know about the 88k since Apple prototyped using it for their first RISC Mac back in the day before pushing for the PowerPC alliance
- lukeh 4y ago
  NeXT as well I believe!
  - jkepler 4y ago
    M'y physics prof loved his NeXT machine back in the day.
cafard 4y ago
Data General built a machine called the Aviion with the 88K.
johndoe0815 4y ago
Motorola had a lot of VME bus boards with 88100/88110 CPUs. There's still a web site dedicated to the 88k CPUs at http://www.m88k.com http://www.m88k.com Fun fact - the 88k was designed by Mitch Alsup, who also designed SPARC CPUs for Ross, x86s for AMD and others. He is retired, but still active in the comp.arch Usenet newsgroup.