There was an article here a little while ago about the 1980's at Apple (can't seem to find it right now, sorry) where someone said they didn't go with x86 becau

There was an article here a little while ago about the 1980's at Apple (can't seem to find it right now, sorry) where someone said they didn't go with x86 because someone (Motorola?) convinced them it could only scale up to some pretty unimpressive speeds (sub-100 MHz?). It turns out, if you try hard enough, any CPU architecture can have lots of room to grow. The Intel 8008 wasn't an "evolutionary dead end", so I don't see any reason the 6502 was, except the decision to let it be.