Imagine, how things could have been...

[iamaboringperson]

just having a 68000 wouldnt necessarily make the machine as a whole equal to the mac/lisa/amiga/atariST/etc...

imagine if they did that - but had no custom chips - still used an MS-DOS type thing, and still had all the interupts and crap(quite possible), its still quite likely that the wouldnt have an automaticly configuring machine

the 640K limit would be gone! that would be good

it would of been interesting to see

but the amiga & mac(and many others) still had advantages over the ibm-pc other than the CPU
so perhaps in terms of sales and support and marketing and popularity - i dont really think it would of changed that much

[iamaboringperson]

One thought though... If the IBM PC had used the 68k, then the Amiga/Mac/ST, could all have run "PC" software in a Virtual machine "Dos Box"... that would have shaken up the market a great deal, I think.

hmm.. interesting thought. if they could all run each others software, they might of eventually 'merged' - with the only differences being the custom chips, keyboard, & OS, they would be less differentiated in the eyes of the customer perhaps
more interchangable

[iamaboringperson]

ive always wanted to set up a pentium 4 machine and run win3.11 on it