@miodvallat Even though I know that you know about it, your story misses the #Telmat TR5000 server in the list of machines that were built with m88k processors. Built in France and used a lot by #FranceTelecom. I found a picture here:
https://en.mandadb.hu/tetel/866653/Telmat_TR_5000
And a mention of the hisotry there:
https://forum.silicium.org/viewtopic.php?p=407798#p407798