[Coco] more 1 bit madness
Nick Marentes
nickma at optusnet.com.au
Tue Jan 21 23:17:55 EST 2014
Richard E Crislip <rcrislip at ...> writes:
>
> Hi Steve,
>
> I knew cost was the reason. How did Commodore and Atari pull it off? If
> I remember correctly, they were all in the same price range. Or are my
> short stem cells showing again?
But they didn't have an 80 x 24 column screen.
Lower resolution graphics (No 640 x 200)
No advanced interrupt handling.
The ability to run a multi-tasking multi-user industry standard OS (Os-9).
Slower floppy drive access.
And only sported a cheap 6502 (not the powerful 6809).
Nick
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