Yes now you can do that. But that 'trivial' thing you talk about isn't that trivial and it also requires quite a few gates. And this was an area where you didn'

Yes now you can do that. But that 'trivial' thing you talk about isn't that trivial and it also requires quite a few gates. And this was an area where you didn't just have lots of gates left over. > '030 was still very competitive Questionable. A simple ARM low power chip beat it. And the RISC designs destroyed it. ARM2 even in 1886 basically doubled up 68020 not to mention the bigger RISC designs. Lots of companies were taping out RISC designs by 1985 and all of them basically beat them.