[Coco][Color Computer] Is this likely to work ?
Neil Morrison
neilsmorr at hotpop.com
Wed Sep 7 01:06:49 EDT 2005
ISTR that one of the key features of OS-9 was it's ability to 'bind' ROM
modules into itself to extend it. That way you could have all of the OS-9
software in ROM - minimum disk access required.
Neil
----- Original Message -----
From: "Boisy G. Pitre" <boisy at boisypitre.com>
> One thing that comes to mind from Phill's idea is a large RAM Disk.
> There was a similar product back in the 80s for the CoCo 2, I believe it
> was called the J&R Banker or something similar?
>
> Of course, a cartridge based battery-backup RAM disk would also be nice.
> CRC's Tony Distefano had a 256K and 512K model, and I myself have the
> 512K one. With today's RAM, you could easily support megabytes of RAM
> space.
>
> The possibilities are fun and endless...
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