ColdFire made the compromises necessary to make it scale, and the author points that out. But it was too late. ColdFire can be made entirely 68k compatible wit

ColdFire made the compromises necessary to make it scale, and the author points that out. But it was too late. ColdFire can be made entirely 68k compatible with simple low-overhead emulation software. It could be have been a viable path forward for 68k, but they rolled it out almost 10 years too late, after they'd totally given up on 68k. Motorola abandoned 68k, is what happened.