From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: dave at horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2018 17:24:39 +1000 (EST)
Subject: [COFF] Why did Motorola fail?
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On Fri, 10 Aug 2018, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:

> Forty years ago Motorola 680x0 CPUs powered most good Unix boxen, with 
> the exception of this upstart SPARC thing.  And then they were gone. I'm 
> trying to remember why.  Can anybody help me?  I recall claims that Moto 
> didn't put enough effort into development, but was this primarily a 
> technical or a commercial issue?

Well, having Microsoft supporting Intel wouldn't've helped...

-- Dave