68030

toc =General Purpose Computers= The 68030 was used in models of the Apple Macintosh II and Commodore Amiga personal computers, [|NeXT Cube], and Sun Microsystems Sun-3/80 workstations.
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 * [[image:265px-Motorola_68030_die.JPG link="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Motorola_68030_die.JPG"]] ||~ || The **68030** is a 32-bit [|microprocessor] by Motorola, released in 1987 as successor of the 68020. It features on-chip instruction and data caches of 256 bytes each as well as an on-chip [|MMU]. Available clock frequencies were  16, 20, 25, 33, 40, and 50 MHz. It has a three-stage pipeline, and an internal [|Harvard architecture] with physically separate storage and [|buses] for instructions and data. Like other 68000 family processors, the 68030 is a Big-endian machine. ||
 * Die shot of Motorola 68030 ||~ ||^ ||

=Dedicated Chess Computers= The 68030 processor was used in several dedicated chess computers of the late 80s and early 90s, most notably in various top models of Fidelity Electronics, namely Chess Challenger, Elite and the experimental Fidelity X with programs by Dan and Kathe Spracklen, and Hegener & Glaser's Mephisto brand with programs by Richard Lang, beside others the winning computers of the WMCCC 1989 in [|Portorož], the WMCCC 1990 in [|Lyon] , and WMCCC 1991 in [|Vancouver] (winner of the commercial group by default).

=See also=
 * 68000
 * 68020
 * x86

=Publications=
 * [|MOTOROLA M68000 FAMILY - Programmer’s Reference Manual] (pdf)
 * [|Steve Williams] (**1989**). //68030 Assembly Language Reference: Includes the 68020//. ISBN-13: 978-0201088762, [|Addison-Wesley], from [|amazon]

=External Links=
 * [|Motorola 68030 from Wikipedia]
 * [|Motorola 68000 family from Wikipedia]
 * [|Motorola 68030 (MC68030) microprocessor family] from [|CPU-World]
 * [|MC68030 Product Summary Page] from [|Freescale Semiconductor]

Fidelity

 * [|Fidelity X chess computer at the 6th World Chess Championship in Edmonton, Alberta], The Computer History Museum
 * [|Fidelity Elite V9] from [|Schachcomputer.info - Wiki] (German)

Mephisto

 * [|Mephisto TM Portorose] from [|Schachcomputer.info - Wiki] (German)
 * [|Mephisto TM Lyon] from [|Schachcomputer.info - Wiki] (German)
 * [|Mephisto TM Vancouver] from [|Schachcomputer.info - Wiki] (German)
 * [|Mephisto Genius 68030] from [|Schachcomputer.info - Wiki] (German)
 * [|Mephisto London 68030] from [|Schachcomputer.info - Wiki] (German)

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