[Coco] CoCo Progression...

James Dessart james at skwirl.ca
Sun Sep 26 09:34:28 EDT 2004


On 25-Sep-04, at 9:49 PM, David Gacke wrote:

> Second, it's much easier to breathe new life into a possible CoCo 4
> design by moving to a newer CPU, like an ARM. This gives you readily
> available development tools like GCC and linux, not to mention many
> other open source projects. But those aren't even necessary.

I have to agree that in-system emulation is probably better than just 
reimplementing the CPU. Both Palm and Apple have used this technique to 
move to a new architecture, and it seems to have worked well for both 
of them.

James




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