It takes someone with tech smarts to understand and code the x86 protected mode segmented memory design. The 68xxx was not very sophisticated and could never compete with Intel’s chips and their marketing. You sound like a linear memory bigot.
From a purely, scientific and mathematic point of view the 68XXX is a far better system than the Hardware Segmentation forced by the x86.
You are correct marketing won. The better design did not.
ARM will beat them all into the dirt.
Linear memory bigot? All I did was select the best designs for the customer’s requirements at the cheapest price.
Had the market not collapsed I’d have done most things in “Bit slice”. and got exactly what I wanted.