[Coco] Color computer these days...

[Bill Barnes]

-Later!   -WB-    -- BABIC Computer Consulting.

--- On Wed, 12/10/08, Joel Ewy <jcewy at swbell.net> wrote:
From: Joel Ewy <jcewy at swbell.net>
Subject: Re: [Coco] Color computer these days...
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Date: Wednesday, December 10, 2008, 12:10 AM

> What the CoCo community most emphatically does not need is 3 or 4
> completely different, incompatible systems.  Nobody will write new
> software supporting new features if the already small CoCo world
> fragments itself into even smaller factions.  This is one area where
> cooperation, not competition, is called for.  Compatible software
> emulators and FPGA CoCo systems would strengthen each other, providing a
> single platform for potential programmers.  Incompatible systems would
> be a disaster. In fact, this is a lesson we should have learned from the
> first crop of would-be CoCo successors.


I definately agree. In fact the whole computer movement/revolution/birth would not have been so fast and successful if the early pioneers had made everything proprietary and "trade secret" instead of sharing what they learned and what ideas were brewing in their heads for their next projects with each other. Nowadays... NDAs and other means are employed to keep everything hush-hush (and a "don't dare and try to figure out how we did it" attitude.)