I never encountered the 6800, but I did talk to people in the 90's who thought the 6800 was pretty bad and the 6809 pretty good. The 68000 is really a differen

I never encountered the 6800, but I did talk to people in the 90's who thought the 6800 was pretty bad and the 6809 pretty good. The 68000 is really a different class of CPU entirely, so I'm not sure why folks are discussing it here. Only the name is similar.