Products and applications Motorola 88000

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motorola released series of single-board computers, known mvme series, building out of box systems based on 88000, series 900 stackable computers employing these mvme boards. unlike tower or rack mount systems, series 900 sat on top of each other , connected 1 bus-like cabling. concept never caught on.

major 3rd party users limited. widespread use in data general aviion series. these popular, , remain in limited use today. later models, dg moved intel. encore computer built encore-91 machine on m88k, introduced ground-up redesign infinity 90 series, unclear how many of these machines sold. encore moved alpha.

gec computers used 88100 build gec 4310, 1 of gec 4000 series computers, issues memory management meant didn t perform earlier gate array based , am2900 based gec 4000 series computers. bbn butterfly model tc-2000 used 88100 processor, , scaled 512 cpus. linotype-hell used 88110 in power workstations running davinci raster graphics editor image manipulation.

the 88110 made versions of never released next machine, next risc workstation, project canceled along next hardware projects in 1993. 4-processor omron luna88k machines japan used m88k, , used short time on mach kernel project @ carnegie mellon university. in 1990s northern telecom used 88100 , 88110 central processor in dms supernode family of telephone switches.

most other users smaller. alpha microsystems planned migrate 88k architecture motorola 68000, , internally created machine around running unix system v, later scrapped in favour of later 68k derivatives. ncd used 88100 (without 88200) in 88k x-terminals. dolphin server, spin-off dying norsk data built servers based on 88k. around 100 systems shipped during 1988-1992.

virtuality used 88110 in su2000 virtual reality arcade machine graphics processor, 1 88110 per screen of each virtual reality headset.

in embedded computer space, tri-channel vms computer in f-15 s/mtd used 3 88000s in triply redundant computer.