[Coco] Color Computer Flex

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I've read your book :-) It was excellent -r

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> Subject: Re: [Coco] Color Computer Flex
> From: farna at att.net
> Date: Thu, April 26, 2007 6:25 pm
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> 
> Frank Hogg got into a bit of hot water promoting Flex over OS-9 way
> back when! He never intended to say that Flex was overall better than
> OS-9, as there was some things Flex couldn't do. What he had intneded
> all along was that Flex was a better OS than OS-9 for the CoCo due to
> the original 32K limitation. Even when people figured out how to
> access 64K he continued to say Flex was better for the CoCo. The
> reason was that while OS-9 was multi-user/tasking capable, you
> couldn't do a whole lot in 64K. Two users and two different tasks
> would tax the system, depending on what those tasks were. Flex didn't
> require as much memory. Once the CoCo3 came out with up to 512K Flex
> was essentially done for -- OS-9 had enough memory for its power to
> outshine Flex. I interviewed Frank Hogg for the book I wrote years ago
> and he still remembered all that! 
> 
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