Remember that everything on the ST was being costed in early or mid 1984, about a year before the ST shipped. (Which in retrospect was an amazingly compressed s

Remember that everything on the ST was being costed in early or mid 1984, about a year before the ST shipped. (Which in retrospect was an amazingly compressed schedule...) I think that the National 32032 would have beaten the 68K in cost; National was pretty hungry and willing to make good deals. But their chips were rather extremely very buggy (which the Tramiels may not have cared about, since making software engineers suffer was part of their model), but it was a relatively poor performer, clock-for-clock, and that made the hardware engineers go "ewwww" and after a while we software guys realized that National wasn't being invited over for meetings any more.