[Coco] What good is 512K? (was: Coco Digest, Vol 26, Issue 50

[Roger Merchberger]

Rumor has it that Richard Ivey may have mentioned these words:
>What does putting a 512k board in a COCO 3  actually do for it, anyway?

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It gives you access to 512K of RAM! ;-)

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>There isn't much out there that can  take advantage of it, right?

There's a lot out there that can take advantage of it - just less so under 
RS-DOS. Almost Anything that runs under OS-9 can take advantage of 512K of RAM.

>   Or is it for the "after-Tandy" era  software that has since come out.

Tandy had a lot of software available that could use it.

>   Or is it bragging rights over  Atari and Commodores?

Well, there *is* that... ;-)

HTH,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger

P.S. When replying to a digest, you might want to 1) change the subject 
line in keeping with your question, and 2) trim off the superfluous stuff 
that doesn't pertain to your posting. Laterz!

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