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Subject: Re: Orphaned Response - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 6-Jan-84 04:52:44 EST
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uokvax!emjej    Jan  4 13:49:00 1984

The Compuserve CoCo SIG is starting to carry discussion (of a blue-sky
nature) of a truly portable 6809/OS-9 based machine. I'd say that such
a beast could be *quite* nice (Level Two and 128K, a good on-board modem,
serial and parallel ports, clock, and nice display, if they could be had).

Evidently Hitachi has come out with a CMOS (and hence not needing much
power--hardware folks, please correct me if I'm wrong) 6809, and this is
what prompted the discussion.

							James Jones

To further comment on why not a 68000: I suppose you could, but then what
with estimates on net.micro of the 68000s and 8087 stooping to emulate
a 370 running at an effective .1 MIP, I'd say that a largely byte-oriented
machine that runs at .4 MIP (see Terry Ritter's article in *System 68* on
the 6809 instruction set and his arrival at this average number for a
2 MHz 6809) could do pretty well...