[to3m]

Yes. The 68000 was very nice to program for, but internally it was obviously from an earlier era/too far ahead of its time/a big pile of shit (delete as you see fit). You'll hunt far and wide for an instruction that takes less than 4 cycles, long instructions take more time again, variable-width shifts take 2 cycles per shift, a division can take 150 cycles, and with the effective address calculation timings on top things can really mount up. (See, e.g., http://oldwww.nvg.ntnu.no/amiga/MC680x0_Sections/mc68000timi...)

If you look at the cycle counts for 8086 instructions - see, e.g., http://zsmith.co/intel.html - they're much closer to the 68000 ones. Compared to the 68000, the 286 is just on another level.