Probably because Jobs knew M68K already and had relationships with Motorola? Just a theory. NeXT did have a working M88K[1] system, that booted and ran. The ca

Probably because Jobs knew M68K already and had relationships with Motorola? Just a theory. NeXT did have a working M88K[1] system, that booted and ran. The case was a slightly taller version of the NeXTStation. Then they killed all hardware. However the pa-risc systems were the best you could run NS/OS on. Intel might be faster but it was a pain to setup. 712/100 just ran and ran smoothly. [1] http://www.nextcomputers.org/forums/index.php?topic=1271.msg7723#msg7723 http://www.nextcomputers.org/forums/index.php?topic=1271.msg... http://www.nextcomputers.org/NeXTfiles/Images/Rare_NeXT_Hardware/NRW-NeXT_RISC_Workstation/ http://www.nextcomputers.org/NeXTfiles/Images/Rare_NeXT_Hard... EDIT: Changed powerpc to m88K.