The 88000 (m88k for short)'s a RISC instruction set architecture (ISA) developed by Motorola. The 88000 was Motorola's attempt at a home-grown RISC architecture (now often referred to as a load/store architecture), started in the 1980s. Having arrived some two years after its competition, in the form of the SPARC and MIPS, the 88000 never managed to catch on. Operating system support Motorola released its own UNIX System V derivative, System V/88, for its 88000-based systems. There were two… (More on 88000)