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How Motorola Made The First Modern CPU

Meta (Connect) · Jun 10, 2026 · Other Signals

The Motorola 68000, launched in the late 1970s, is considered the first modern processor.

“It was capable of multitasking, virtual memory, and running multiple OSs many years before anyone else, even Intel.”

A retrospective on the Motorola 68000 CPU, which powered 1980s-90s game consoles and the first Apple Macintosh. It is a computing-history piece with no meaningful AI industry signal.

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