[Coco] more 1 bit madness

[Richard E Crislip]

Yeah... I did consider those points. At the same time it does make mine 
though, If Tandy could have added that functionality to that powerful 
processor, it would have been a killer machine and folks like you would 
have had a ball making it come alive <sigh>.

On 01/21/2014 11:17 PM, Nick Marentes wrote:
> 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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