Coming back to this thread a day later. I think the real story is that: 68k could not keep up because Motorola just stopped investing in it. Dunno if this is a

Coming back to this thread a day later. I think the real story is that: 68k could not keep up because Motorola just stopped investing in it. Dunno if this is a chicken vs egg thing due to its already declining popularity, or just bad leadership at Motorola, or both. But Intel shoveled money into the R&D furnace for x86 while Motorola spent their energies elsewhere. And so they stopped competing, and then stopped existing.