[Coco] Coco4?

[Kip Koon]

Hi James!
All interesting ideas.  What do you think about my Kipper computer design?
I sent you an email on N8VEM about it.  Here is the link again just in case.
http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Kip_Koon
Of course I'm not sure what your design entails nor what your goals are, but
I'm definitely willing to collaborate on design ideas and maybe
co-collaborate on coming up with a 6309 based multiprocessing beast of a
computer.  I'd really like that a lot.  Take care my friend.
Kip

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From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
Behalf Of iggybeans at comcast.net
Sent: Friday, November 15, 2013 2:00 PM
To: coco at maltedmedia.com
Subject: [Coco] Coco4?

>FPGA is definitely the only way a true CoCo4 could be made. 

>A CoCo3+ is more achievable as a base CoCo3 with an enhancement of some
kind. 

>I think the most useful would be some sort of CPU acceleration. 

>Also, maybe something that also incorporate a 15Khz upscaler to drive 
>LCD monitors.

>Nick

All good ideas from someone who has weighed in on this before. 
Right now, one thing I have been working on in my design is trying to
incorporate a second CPU as an I/O processor and to facilitate DMA. 
I like those last two ideas Nick mentioned. 

Isn't there already someone building a VGA adapter? 
And, since we sort of max out at around 3.58 MHz (and even that isn't
practical with the rest of the components unable to run synchronized at that
speed), I guess you are back to an FPGA. 

If someone builds a decent 6309 core, that would be a nice start. 

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