[Coco] RAM SIZE INPUT mystery (solved)

[Neil Morrison]

You'd think but some old, badly written programs expected 4K or 16K only.
IIRC if you had 32K they would respond like 4K or fail.

Neil

On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 8:04 PM, J.P. Samson <jps.subscriptions at gmail.com>wrote:

> Perhaps this is an ignorant question of me to ask, but...
>
> Why would a CoCo 3 need to respond as if it were a 4kB machine?  Surely a
> computer with more memory would be just as good for any program?
>
> -- JP
>