So why exactly is the 060 so expensive I checked the freescale parts page...It's a 15 year old design I figure they could make if for pennies or a few bucks...
I'm just speculating here but I think there could be a couple of reasons: do they still make 060s any more? If not it's a dead product and they're keeping the prices at what they were when they were new. They're doing so because they want to drive developers towards different CPU architectures, and bleed the people who insist they "need" 060s for whatever reason for as much as they can.
