[Coco] CoCo Video Player

Roger Taylor operator at coco3.com
Fri Mar 18 04:44:47 EDT 2011


At 12:06 PM 3/17/2011, you wrote:
>Andrew,
>I disagree with you and with Roger's comment. Now I don't want to 
>shock anyone, but his wouldn't be the first time that Roger and I 
>have disagreed.
>This has nothing to do with anything other than this statement.
>Being a hardware guy, the hardware sets the pace for the software. 
>Software can be good or bad but if the hardware does not support the 
>cool features which the software is pushing, then NONE of it would 
>be possible. Another way to look at it is that the software can only 
>make the hardware goes as fast as it was designed in a optimized 
>environment. If it was up to the software, the CoCo would be running 
>at 100GHZ today...... :)
>I think we all can agree that the CoCo3's hardware was ahead of it's 
>time. A dream machine and to this day we are all trying to make the 
>most of it. Now that is the FUN part! :)
>Going to lab central for the weekend so I'll be offlist....Please 
>don't consider this an attack on Roger as it is not. Hate to put 
>disclaimers on my posts..... :)
>Regards,
>Mark
>Cloud-9

Ah, I won't hold it against you Nick, because this is an age old 
debate that's right up there with abortion, the death penalty, 
etc.  It's one of those 50/50 things where tomorrow you might lean 
the other way after thinking about it longer.  :)


-- 
~ Roger Taylor




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