[COFF] Why did Motorola fail?

[Dave Horsfall]

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