I was sort of surprised that after the PPC took off, nobody tried to do something meaningful with the 68k architecture in the immediate aftermath-- license it f

I was sort of surprised that after the PPC took off, nobody tried to do something meaningful with the 68k architecture in the immediate aftermath-- license it from motorola, and make pin-compatible clock-doubled 68060s, or eventually applying modern-x86-style "It's RISC everywhere after the decoder" designs. There was probably a few years when there would have been commercial appeal-- getting a few more years of life from all those workstation platforms (pre-SPARC Suns, pre-PA-RISC HPs, etc.) that ran on 68k-family chips, anyone with a Mac that had software performance-constrained by the PPC migration-- as well as the Amiga enthusiasts. When Transmeta showed itself to the world, I figured that's where their business case lived. (68k as one of many possible small-run high-margin markets)