[Coco] Lonnie Falk once defended the Coco once by saying "It neverslows down" - but the SNES actually speeds up

[Allen Huffman]

> On Mar 15, 2025, at 3:52 PM, gene heskett via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
> 
> The coco's got markedly faster with running os9 as we found and fixed bugs. I didn't use basic enough ( too clunky ) to note, but generally that pretty much stayed the same.  Running os9 level one there was very little to limit what it could do, I wrote an edisk for a gvg300 3A/B video switcher that was 4 times faster than gvg's $20,000 kit. And later used much of that code for a signature analyzer for that extremely complex switcher to tell me which of the 24 digital paths thru it had a bad memory chip. All been retired now by the switch to digital video in 2008.


Gene,

How did you get into a CoCo, and bypass BASIC? I believe James Jones was another who had familiarity with OS-9, and got a CoCo specifically for OS-9.
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