ColdFire was/is literally that is my understanding. But there was really no market for it. They produced variants up to 300mhz if I recall but then relegated it mostly just to microcontroller market and then stopped developing it.
It was too late, and just oh-so-slightly incompatible with 680x0. But I suspect if the ISA used in ColdFire v4 had existed in 1994, 1995 that perhaps Apple's honestly disastrous foray through PowerPC could have been avoided.
It was too late, and just oh-so-slightly incompatible with 680x0. But I suspect if the ISA used in ColdFire v4 had existed in 1994, 1995 that perhaps Apple's honestly disastrous foray through PowerPC could have been avoided.