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the 6809 was a member of the 6800 family, the 68000 was a completely new microarchitecture.



Yes, that's why I was interested in the first place. That meant that they had to port the software they had written. The 6809 is a very nice 8 bit chip, the 68000 is a 32 bit chip.




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