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IIRC, Motorola was never able to put an 88K CPU, FPU and MMU in a single package. They were also unwilling/unable to make it inexpensive enough.

A sensible Motorola would have made the price target of the low-end 88K the same unit price of a 68030.



You might like to search a USENET archive for old posts in comp.arch. I'm fairly sure that the 88120 did combine everything in a single package.


That was the 88110. The 88120 never saw the light of day.


The 88120 wasn't sold but apparently it did work fine before the project was cancelled.

The architect of it regularly posts to comp.arch.




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