[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...





More information about the Coco mailing list