The 88000 (m88k for short) is a RISC instruction set architecture (ISA) developed by Motorola. The 88000 was Motorola's attempt at a home-grown RISC 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. History Originally called the 78000 as a homage to their famed 68000 series, the design went though a tortured development path, including the name change, before finally emerging in Apr… (More on 88000)