May 2014
Intermediate to advanced
320 pages
13h 41m
English
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Servicing 68000-based
microcomputers
The 68000 family of microprocessors was first officially announced in July 1979. At its launch,
the 68000 was heralded as 'a break away from the past!'. Since
then,
over 30 million
processors from the 68000 series have found their way into such diverse equipment as home
computers, scientific workstations, laserprinters, CAD/CAM systems, process controllers, and
UNIX-based super-microcomputers. The 68000 offers the system designer a sleek and
uncluttered architecture with a vast linear address range (the 68000 does not have to resort to
the somewhat messy segmented addressing employed with the Intel famil ...