Usage
Perhaps its most memorable use was in American broadcast television graphics. Chyron's iNFiNiT!, Max!, and Maxine! series of television character generators used the 68060 as the main processor. These character generators were a fixture on many American television networks' affiliate stations.
In desktops, the 68060 was used in some variants of the Amiga 4000T produced by Amiga Technologies, and available as a third party upgrade for other Amiga models. It was also used in the Amiga clone DraCo non-linear video system.
The Q60 extended the Sinclair QL design similarly from the slowest start to the ultimate pace of the 68K architecture's capabilities; these 68060-based motherboards—at 66 MHz for the full 68060 or a non-FPU 68LC060 option overclocked to 80 MHz—are more than 100 times faster than the Sinclair QL while running the same operating systems.
The 68060 was also used in Nortel Meridian 1 Option 51, 61 and 81 large office PBX systems, powering the CP3 and CP4 core processor boards. A pair of these boards each sporting a 68060 could be used to make the PBX fault tolerant. This was a logical application as previous Meridian 1 cores used other Motorola chips. Nortel has since changed the architecture to use Intel processors.
Also the Motorola Vanguard 6560 multiprotocol router used a 50 MHz 68EC060 processor.
Motorola MVME-17x and Force Computer SYS68K VMEbus systems also used a 68060 CPU.
Read more about this topic: Motorola 68060
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