[Coco] What would a CoCo successor have to have as a minimum?

[jdaggett at gate.net]

On 22 Nov 2010 at 9:24, Mark McDougall wrote:

> On 22/11/2010 9:03 AM, Theodore (Alex) Evans wrote:
> 
> > You can reduce memory contention through a
> > number of means. For one thing there is such a thing as dual-port memory.
> 
> Which is very, very expensive. You won't be slapping 1/2 Meg of dual-port 
> memory on a board, believe me!
> 

Not unles you have a lot of dollars and a complex controller and lots of power.

I agree a 512k dual port RAM module is really impractical.

james


> > Maybe it is that I see higher resolutions as useful for other things than
> > video games.
> 
> Perhaps, but you need to design for the worst case. A high resolution screen 
> would be handy for developing (editing) and word processing. But even then, 
> you might be moving/scolling windows with hundreds of kB of graphics data...
> 
> Regards,
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