CISC died when the Pentium Pro came out, its been RISC ever since internally from Intel, the K5 series (Pentium equivalent) I think was RISC as well from AMD.

The best thing about PPC was the FPU completely obliterated anything 68K (even the 68060), so moving to PPC was smart. 68060 wasn't even compatible with the rest of the 68K line before it, so it wasn't going to be used by Apple anyway.

While I love Nubus, it sucks compared to PCI.