things would be pretty sad... in my opinon motorola would have changed its way of thinking due to their situation and new management ideas... we would probably be paying 600+ dollars for chips with very little performance gain each year... I doubt we would be over 500mhz... although I think 100 is to low...Linux/3D animation/DTP/DVD's and everything like that wouldnt have emerged to such a degree... as computers would be costly...and first world nations rich would be the only ones with them to a large degree... much like the macintosh... I think IBM knew what they where doing when they chose X86....its proven to be scaleable... and because of the politics of it ... there has been massive competiton...since its not consolidated its given rise to many other markets...
on another note... I wonder how high you could theoretically clock an 060 if had a die shrink to .13 or lower micron and used copper interconnects and some of the new age technology without changing it very much or adding instructions?
