My 68 Micro Magazine collection in one of the giant garage boxes...lol 6809 was the Maserati of 8-bit processors in my mind because of OS/9 (with multi-tasking!

My 68 Micro Magazine collection in one of the giant garage boxes...lol 6809 was the Maserati of 8-bit processors in my mind because of OS/9 (with multi-tasking!)...There hadn't been anything like that in the microcomputer space before (maybe MP/M?) I have heard that Apple had even planned its reimagined Xerox Star (called Lisa) on 6809 (maybe even with OS/9?), but the 68000 chip shipped before the 6809 could take off and there is no comparison between the two. (6809 couldn't gain traction against 6502-based systems in time, it was late to market and Commodore which, I think, had bought 6502-maker MOS Technologies from Rockwell so it could self-deal at a loss, was flooding the market with cheap systems.) For whatever reason, everyone did their own OSes for the 68000 except for a few old S-100 vendors that shipped CP/M-68K. OS/9 on 68K existed (maybe for industry), but wasn't a thing in the personal computer world, as far as I remember. For me though, OS/9 hearkens back to the moments before the dystopia of Commodore imploding (https://youtu.be/lIcK0m-JZFo https://youtu.be/lIcK0m-JZFo at the hands of its severely disgruntled Founder) which, despite it's incredible custom chips and bearing the transplanted soul of actual geniuses, allowed DOS to inherit the Earth, leading Bill Gates to make so much money (and the industry to stagnate for so long) he was able to hire away DEC's crown jewel (Dave Cutler) who went on to fix Windows (NT), architect Azure and facilitate OpenAI, but also kill the VAX and DEC itself in the process, all while an academic in San Diego invented async-TCP/IP and thought it would be a good idea to include it "for free" in Windows (as "RAS") thus destroying the 40 year old "safe and secure" global X.25 network (with distance-based pricing) in a matter of a few dozen months, removing barriers to mass socialization of the software industry (and hackers), leading to the Dot Com bubble/crash, commoditization of technical labor and rise of the AWS/Azure clouds, indeed, the return of timesharing that had taken 20 years to kill off, not to mention Google and the surveillance capitalism we had all dreaded in 1960s sci-fi themes of a TV that watches you! I'm convinced there was no saving Commodore (after https://www.commodore.ca/commodore-history/the-crazy-story-of-how-irving-gould-ended-up-owning-and-killing-commodore/ https://www.commodore.ca/commodore-history/the-crazy-story-o...) or Amiga (after Commodore bought them), but imagine if Apple had launched Lisa or Mac with its own custom chips (sort of Apple Silicon v1) way back in 1983-1984 and had chosen to base Finder and the MacToolbox on OS/9! (Almost everything wrong with what's nowadays called Classic MacOS stemmed from its bug ridden core.) Amiga had launched just 24 months after Lisa, but with those three amazing custom chips that had taken 48 months to make. Maybe a For All Mankind like series in that world heh https://youtu.be/pHQMGjP2nFM https://youtu.be/pHQMGjP2nFM