Interesting viewpoint, but I'm not sure we should believe him. From one of the tweets in that thread:
"But even in the latest 680030 was woefully far behind Intel"
I think he means that the Motorola 68030 was behind Intel's competing CPU. According to Wikipedia, the 68030 was released in 1987. The 80386DX is the Intel competitor, albeit it was released a couple of years earlier.
68030 offered 18 MIPS at 50 MHz.
80386DX offered 6-7 MIPS at 20 MHz in 1987.
The 386 had all the weird "real mode" and segmented architecture baggage. The 68030 had 32-bit registers and 32-bit data path.
"But even in the latest 680030 was woefully far behind Intel"
I think he means that the Motorola 68030 was behind Intel's competing CPU. According to Wikipedia, the 68030 was released in 1987. The 80386DX is the Intel competitor, albeit it was released a couple of years earlier.
68030 offered 18 MIPS at 50 MHz.
80386DX offered 6-7 MIPS at 20 MHz in 1987.
The 386 had all the weird "real mode" and segmented architecture baggage. The 68030 had 32-bit registers and 32-bit data path.
Not sure we can take this thread seriously.