This is an awesome post, but I don't think it proves that it wouldn't have mattered. The biggest win with 68k over 8088 is the flat address space and the innova

This is an awesome post, but I don't think it proves that it wouldn't have mattered. The biggest win with 68k over 8088 is the flat address space and the innovations that would have been easier with a larger address space. The PC was super constrained from a software perspective because of segment registers and the memory model.