For a while the 680x0 in Macs, Amiga and Atari was the most popular CPU, and I'm sure the first HPUX workstation I used in my Uni. had a 68040 so even in Unix and NeXT workstations.
But after the 68040 it never seemed to evolve into anything else, and probably got subsumed by the Power
line of CPUs into oblivion.
For a while the 680x0 in Macs, Amiga and Atari was the most popular CPU, and I'm sure the first HPUX workstation I used in my Uni. had a 68040 so even in Unix and NeXT workstations.
But after the 68040 it never seemed to evolve into anything else, and probably got subsumed by the Power line of CPUs into oblivion.
And it has a fantastic assembly language to boot.