[Coco] Color Computer Flex

[L. Curtis Boyle]

On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 13:28:23 -0600, <coco at yourdvd.net> wrote:

> I've read your book :-) It was excellent -r
>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: Re: [Coco] Color Computer Flex
>> From: farna at att.net
>> Date: Thu, April 26, 2007 6:25 pm
>> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
>>
>> Frank Hogg got into a bit of hot water promoting Flex over OS-9 way
>> back when! He never intended to say that Flex was overall better than
>> OS-9, as there was some things Flex couldn't do. What he had intneded
>> all along was that Flex was a better OS than OS-9 for the CoCo due to
>> the original 32K limitation. Even when people figured out how to
>> access 64K he continued to say Flex was better for the CoCo. The
>> reason was that while OS-9 was multi-user/tasking capable, you
>> couldn't do a whole lot in 64K. Two users and two different tasks
>> would tax the system, depending on what those tasks were. Flex didn't
>> require as much memory. Once the CoCo3 came out with up to 512K Flex
>> was essentially done for -- OS-9 had enough memory for its power to
>> outshine Flex. I interviewed Frank Hogg for the book I wrote years ago
>> and he still remembered all that!

     I remember those articles (weren't they in his 64K Corner or whatever  
editorial it was he did for CCN (Color Computer News)?
We discussed it as well, once we joined the TC-9 development team. Hard to  
believe he started (and I believe has returned to?) being a dentists  
office. On a side note, Bill Sias (editor/publisher of CCN) has given  
permission for scans of his magazines (inluding Forum 68, I think was his  
other one) to be put on the web, no restrictions.

-- 
L. Curtis Boyle