[Coco] How much memory

[Bob Devries]

Of particular interest to Coco FLEX and OS9 users is this page:

http://www.evenson-consulting.com/flexusergroup/fug7.htm

Several authors known in the OS9 community appear to have released their 
software and/or documentation to the public domain.

Regards, Bob Devries

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rogelio Perea" <os9dude at gmail.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 2:19 AM
Subject: Re: [Coco] How much memory


> On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I think you might have said "forth" when you meant "FLEX"....
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Frank Swygert <farna at att.net> wrote:
>> > That's the main reason Frank Hogg was saying that Forth was a much 
>> > better
>> OS
>> > for the CoCo than OS-9 in the early days -- Forth allowed multi-tasking
>> and
>> > used memory a lot more efficiently than OS-9....
>>
>
>
> As I was reading Frank's message I was trying to picture the programming
> language do the deeds of an OS :-)
>
> Hogg's trumpeting of Flex was also very prominent in Bill Sias's "Color
> Computer News" publication; this was before the OS9 Level 1 release by 
> Radio
> Shack, back when the first CoCo's started to sport the full 64k RAM
> upgrades.
>
> For those who Flex may be of interest ->
> http://www.evenson-consulting.com/flexusergroup/fug1.htm
>
>
>
> -- RP
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