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From: phillips@cisden.UUCP (Tom Phillips)
Newsgroups: net.micro.6809
Subject: Re: OS9/6809 on the C64
Message-ID: <419@cisden.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 17-Jan-86 15:11:37 EST
Article-I.D.: cisden.419
Posted: Fri Jan 17 15:11:37 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 20-Jan-86 05:40:56 EST
References: <407@wlbr.UUCP> <339@3comvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: phillips@cisden.UUCP (Tom Phillips)
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Keywords: OS9, 6809, Commodore 64
Summary: Me Too!

In article <339@3comvax.UUCP> mykes@3comvax.UUCP (Mike Schwartz) writes:
>I wonder why nobody has built a 6809 card for the C64 (and C128).  The
>card can't be that expensive to build, and the power of the 09 would
>make the C64 hardware do even better things than it already does.  I like
>the 09 a bunch, but I don't think that the CoCo is for me (too slow, 
>fair graphics, etc.).  A 6809 board might even breath a lot of new life
>into the C64.
Me too!  In fact, one of the things I have been considering doing is building
just such a card.  The main thing that is holding me back is the necessity
of burning an EPROM for (at least) a monitor.  I don't want to hand-assemble
even a little monitor, much less a useful one.
>Take no offense, please, about my lack of interest in the CoCo, I just
>would rather program something I like better (my own tastes).  As long
In my case, I already have the time and money investment in the admittedly
crude 64.  If I was starting now (what with Rat Shack selling disk drives
for the CoCo at a more reasonable price) I would go with Tandy.  I do like
the 6809 better.
>as someone was to build a 6809 card, how about adding ROM and RAM to add
>some sort of ICONic interface to the 6809 environment?
Sounds like a big project.
>mike schwartz, 3Com Corp.
>(the usual disclaimers apply).


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						Tommy Phillips
From the banks of the great grey-green greasy Limpopo River,
all set about with fever-trees.

				cisden!phillips