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From: emjej@uokvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: stuff from May *Rainbow* - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 25-Apr-84 12:49:00 EST
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/***** uokvax:net.micro.6809 / ea!mwm /  4:34 pm  Apr 24, 1984 */
After all, you could always run
OS-9 as a single user system, and add the third-party drivers and hardware.
The result is something that is much nicer than an (just choosing a
well-known name as an example) apple, and (in this case, anyway) noticeable
less expensive.
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'Twould be nice if third-party hardware could overcome all the
problems, but alas, no one yet sells a reasonable disk controller for
the CoCo (i.e. one that either does DMA or perhaps keeps a sector
buffer on card and lets the 6809 copy data in/out), and that's one of
the major limitations of the CoCo as she stands. Does anyone know how
the various hard disks for the CoCo work?

						James Jones