It was pretty easy to use 8080 peripheral chips with the 8086 and some very few clones did just that. IBM itself had to deal with the problem on the PC AT which had the same i/o chips but a 286 processor. It needed to replicate externally the circuit that the 8088 had internally due to the need to be compatible with the old 8 bit cards as well as the new ISA ones.
The 68000 would have been more of a problem since it moved from the matched memory and clock cycle scheme of the 6800 to a four clock cycle scheme with a complicated handshake. A special memory mode and two extra pins made it talk just fine to the 8 bit i/o chips. There was no need to wait for the 68008 for that.
One huge mistake that was made in the 8088 and 68008 (and I will suppose the TMS9980 as well, though I haven't checked) was that they didn't have a simple way to take advantage of page mode access in DRAMs like the original ARM did. If they had, the gap in performance compared to the 16 bit bus models would have been smaller.
The 68000 would have been more of a problem since it moved from the matched memory and clock cycle scheme of the 6800 to a four clock cycle scheme with a complicated handshake. A special memory mode and two extra pins made it talk just fine to the 8 bit i/o chips. There was no need to wait for the 68008 for that.
One huge mistake that was made in the 8088 and 68008 (and I will suppose the TMS9980 as well, though I haven't checked) was that they didn't have a simple way to take advantage of page mode access in DRAMs like the original ARM did. If they had, the gap in performance compared to the 16 bit bus models would have been smaller.