[Coco] Re: Coco Repack

[jdaggett at gate.net]

Neil

Yes Motoroal did. It was the MC6829 and did paged memory in 2K 
blocks. If you paralleled 8 devices you could have I think was 16 
tasks and a amximum of 2 megs of ram. 

james


On 10 Aug 2004 at 13:19, Neil Morrison wrote:

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> 
> ISTR that Motorola had it's own MMU which was different in segment and
> total memory sizes from the R/S part.
> 
> Neil
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <KnudsenMJ at aol.com>
> 
> > Don't think OS-9 has such a call.  "Everyone knows" it's 8K.
> >
> > ISTR that some commercial OS-9 box (GIMIX?) used 4K segments.  But
> > then, everyone writing for that box knew that.  They, like us
> > Coconuts, didn't
> worry
> > about whether their code would run on other platforms.
> >
> > BTW, I still think that the Coco was the only 6x09 OS-9 box to do
> graphics.
> > ISTR even the Fujitsu dual-6809 system was text-only.  Corrections
> welcome.
> > --Mike K.
> 
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