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by icedchai 406 days ago
That would've been cool! The NeXT hardware was interesting. I have a Turbo slab in my retro collection.

Yeah, it seems Motorola lost their lead with the 68040. Intel was getting huge clock speed gains with the later 486/DX2, DX4, etc. From what I recall, a similarly clocked 040 was faster than a 486 on most benchmarks, but there was simply no way to compete with Intel's high clocks.