[COFF] Why did Motorola fail?

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

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?

Greg
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