Editing Motorola 88000 (section)

== Products and applications ==
[[Image:Mvme-197le.jpg|thumb|right|[[Motorola Single Board Computers|MVME-197LE]]]]
Motorola released a series of [[single-board computer]]s, known as the [[Motorola Single Board Computers|MVME]] series, for building "out of the box" systems based on the 88000, as well as the Series 900 ''stackable'' computers employing these MVME boards. Unlike tower or [[rack mount]] systems, the Series 900 sat on top of each other and connected to one another with bus-like cabling. The concept never caught on.

Major 3rd party users were limited. The only widespread use would be in the [[Data General AViiON]] series. These were fairly popular, and remain in limited use today. For later models, DG moved to Intel. [[Encore Computer]] built its Encore-91 machine on the m88k, then introduced a completely ground-up redesign as the Infinity 90 series, but it is unclear how many of these machines were sold. Encore moved to the [[DEC Alpha|Alpha]]. [[Tektronix]] introduced its XD88 line of graphics workstations in April 1989.<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Marshall |first1=Martin |title=Tektronix Unveils Family Of Graphics Workstations |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XToEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT35 |magazine=InfoWorld |date=April 24, 1989}}</ref>

[[GEC Computers]] used the MC88100 to build the GEC 4310, one of the [[GEC 4000 series]] computers, but issues with memory management meant it didn't perform as well as the company's earlier [[gate array]] based and [[Am2900]] based GEC 4000 series computers. The [[BBN Butterfly]] model TC-2000 used the MC88100 processor, and scaled to 512 CPUs. [[Linotype-Hell]] used the 88110 in its "Power" workstations running the [[Linotype-Hell DaVinci|DaVinci]] [[raster graphics editor]] for image manipulation.

The MC88110 made it into some versions of a never released [[NeXT]] machine, the [[NeXT RISC Workstation]], but the project was canceled along with all NeXT hardware projects in 1993.  The 4-processor [[OMRON]] LUNA-88K machines from Japan used the m88k, and were used for a short time on the [[Mach kernel]] project at [[Carnegie Mellon University]]. In the early 1990s [[Northern Telecom]] used the MC88100 and MC88110 as the central processor in its [[Digital Multiplex System|DMS]] SuperNode family of telephone switches.

Most other users were much smaller. [[Alpha Microsystems]] originally planned to migrate to the 88K architecture from the [[Motorola 68000]], and internally created a machine around it running [[UNIX System V]], but it was later scrapped in favour of later 68K derivatives.<ref>{{cite web |title= AMPM: The Alpha Micro Pageant of Machines  |url=http://ampm.floodgap.com/www/models.htm |website= The Alpha Micro Phun Machine }}</ref> [[Network Computing Devices|NCD]] used the 88100 (without the 88200) in its 88K [[X Window System#X terminals|X-Terminals]]. Dolphin Server, a spin-off from the dying [[Norsk Data]], built servers based on the 88k.<ref name="unixreview199107_dolphin">{{ cite magazine | url=https://archive.org/details/sim_unix-review_1991-07_9_7/page/38/mode/1up | title=Tested Mettle: The Dolphin Server Technology Triton 88 | magazine=UNIX Review | last1=Wilson | first1=David | date=July 1991 | access-date=24 February 2023 | pages=38, 40, 43–44, 46, 48 }}</ref> Around 100 systems were shipped during 1988-1992.

[[Virtuality (gaming)|Virtuality]] used the MC88110 in the [[Virtuality (gaming)#2000 Series|SU2000]] virtual reality arcade machine as a graphics processor, with one MC88110 per screen of each [[virtual reality headset]].

In the embedded computer space, the "Tri-channel VMS Computer" in the [[F-15 S/MTD]] used three 88000s in a triply redundant computer.<ref name="VMS">{{cite web |title=PSC Implementation and Integration |page=63 |url=https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19950026593_1995126593.pdf |publisher=NASA |author=Nobbs, Steven G |access-date=2009-06-16}}</ref>