There's two things that make the 68k awesome to me. One is mac related and the other is "era" related. In the early days, the 68k chips we had, were what Apple wants their chips to be today, and that is QUIET, FAN-LESS, an NO HEATSINK, I don't know about power consumption, but were so much more quieter than late PPC era, Fan Based, with Heat Sinks. It was like a curve in the idea that "we want speed" at whatever cost, and they did, they put the LOUDEST fans possible. Honesty, I cannot use my G4 Dual 1.25, can't do it! It's too loud, it's officially going to be my first doorstop. I just rescued a G3/266 which is one of the last before the dark (loud) ages, systems that's going to replace it in the "always on team" I used to have one but I upgraded it to G4, and moved to a humid climate, and it died for some reason, but I moved back to my dry climate. So it should work like it did when I was here before. Now that Apple has really good speed, they are saying, OK, let's go back to slowing the chip down, and use less power, heat, noise. etc.
But aside from that, the other thing that I love about 68k, is on the Mac side, you can have TWO FILES! on a disk. A System File and a Finder, or if you wanna be slick, any App of your choice! I love that. Think about that for a second? Windows even 3.1 takes like 500-1000 files to run? On the mac all you need is simplistically two files! That's so sick! I mean I can make my own OS if I want to. Just make a Finder replacement, or some other app, and you're good to go.
So to me being able to have my 68ks running with a somewhat fan-less way quieter mode, is so key, and then as a tinker device being able to go into the System Folder and seeing just under 400 files to run the OS (7.6.1), that I can manage with my mind and have all memorized, is really great for a (really knowing what's going on) system.
Laters...
But I'm with WhiteFalcon, I'll show myself out, because the only Assembly Programming I was fortunate to get was 8086, UNLV was pretty anti-mac back in the 1990's, unless it was to run Mathematica in the Math Labs on Macs,but in the Computer Science Labs it was Cray, VAX, Sun, or Intel, but we had 30 NeXT Cubes!