[Coco] Why haven't we got this?!!

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 23 January 2014 14:25:56 iggybeans at comcast.net did opine:

> Interesting GUI/OS.
> I was never that big of a fan of the Z-80, but I can get the processors
> really cheap. A 16 MHz Z80182 costs me $.40 (yes, I stated that
> correctly, forty cents). And 33 MHz Z8S180 chips are also available
> with a 1mb address range, memory management and DMA. So the OS does
> have more potential than NitrOS-9, if only from an available hardware
> standpoint.

Can this 40 cent cpu do Position Independent Code?
 
> On an FPGA Enhanced Coco, there are so many things we could add that
> would expand on our current system that it boggles my mind. I'd love to
> see how the 6309 could be re-worked, and our sound, graphics, and D to
> A conversion could all be upgraded.
> 
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Cheers, Gene
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