MIPS showed up in '85 but by then there were dozens of 68k based unix boxes in the field (I worked for UniSoft, we did over 100 68k unix ports, including the li

MIPS showed up in '85 but by then there were dozens of 68k based unix boxes in the field (I worked for UniSoft, we did over 100 68k unix ports, including the lisa and the mac 2. Back in the mid-80s CISC was still a real thing, intel hadn't really embraced 32-bits yet, if you wanted a unix microprocessor you went for a motorola 68k or nat semi 32k (there were a couple of others with a lot fewer design wins) - at the time every man and his dog seemed to be building a 68k based unix box in his or her garage - we had people come from Yugoslavia, one group Sweden bought a 1st class seat for their wire-wrapped prototype ....