Motorola 68040
<processor> (MC68040) A microprocessor from Motorola. It was the
successor to the Motorola 68030 and was followed by the Motorola 68060.
The 68040 was the first 680x0 family member with an on-chip FPU. It also had
split instruction and data caches of 4 kilobytes(?) each. It was fully
pipelined, with six stages.
The 68040 was used in the Apple Macintosh Quadra series of personal computers.
The MC68LC040 is an MC68040 without a built-in FPU, and the MC68EC040 is an
MC68040 without an MMU or FPU.
(2003-10-25)
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