I'm not sure how you think it would be encumbered, but from the Wikipedia page, my guess is it was mostly cost. The faster variants (like 12 Mhz) were only ava

I'm not sure how you think it would be encumbered, but from the Wikipedia page, my guess is it was mostly cost. The faster variants (like 12 Mhz) were only available later, and I would guess that was due to improved production processes and binning that enabled them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_68000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_68000