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by kev009 16 days ago
There's a really good interview with one of the 68060 architects that posted recently https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1takr2k7Yfo just sit through the intro trust me it gets deeper than you'd think from the first impression.

Probably one of the better CPU interviews I've seen in recent times. He spills some interesting knowledge, the 68060 was a kind of serendipity for Mot that was otherwise winding up the 68k. It was partially acquired and acquihired from an external fabless design startup. Fills in some gaps as to why the CPU wasn't as well known as priors (obviously there were more choices by the time it came out). And a bit of tangents into Coldfire, ARM-M, and RISC-V.