[coldacid]

>I couldn't see a 16-32 bit story. It's like it hit the spot, and stopped growing.

And yet WDC (Bill Mensch's company post-Commodore) put out the 65816, a 16-bit expansion of the 6502 that was the core of the Super Nintendo. So it still grew even if not to 32-bit level.

[js2]

And the Apple IIGS where it was allegedly underclocked so as not to horn in on the Macintosh.