@Hammer
Sounds like you know your processors in detail that few know.
However comparing 68060 that came out in 1994 to a PIII or K7 (1999) is not being very fair.
What were the abilities of the 1993 Pentium or 1995 Pentium Pro in regards to clock cycles?
Was a Pentium better than a 68060 performance wise at the same clock speed?
If the 68k line was not effectively killed (as far as desktop CPU goes) would it not have been improved to still be competitive.
Or is the some architectural reason that would have limited it from the same type of improvements that make the x86 still viable?