Category:M680x0 User

Motorola 680x0 processors family was used by Amiga and MacIntosh. Motorola stopped to the 68060, which is the last of the family (others are: 68000, 68010, 68020, 68030, 68040). The virtual successor family is the PowerPC processor family, promoted by a consortium where there was also Motorola. There's Amiga hardware (accelerator card) with both a 68060 and a PowerPC; and before switching to Intel, also Apple's Mac used PowerPCs as "successor" of the last 68060.

The 680x0 are big endian, 32bit processors (but 68000/10 have only a 24bit address space), with eight general purpose data registers (d0-d7) and eight address registers (a0-a7, where a7, also called sp, is used as user stack pointer), and other registers like sr (status register).

See Motorola 68000 family