[Coco] [Color Computer] RE: [CoCo] Atari and Amiga comparison
Dan Olson
dano at agora.rdrop.com
Thu Mar 15 00:59:59 EDT 2007
>> I've often wondered what things would have been like if the coco had
>> been built around a 68000 unstead of a 6809.
>
> It would have cost $2000 instead of $200, no one would have bought one, and we
> wouldn't be talking about it.
Or Tandy might have named it the Model 16 instead :) More realistly they
would have introduced such a machine in the mid-80s as the follow on to
the coco2. Too bad there was never a 16 bit follow-on to the 6809 that
fell somewhere between the 6809 and 68000, similar to the 65816.
Dan
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