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From: emjej@uokvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: OS9/6809 on the C64
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Date: Wed, 22-Jan-86 05:37:00 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 22 05:37:00 1986
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Nf-From: uokvax.UUCP!emjej    Jan 22 04:37:00 1986



I for one take no offense at the idea...As one who looks on his beloved Imogene
in kindly but objective fashion, I'd be the first to admit that the CoCo is
crippled by its design from being a really good machine for OS-9.  It was designed
(well, there was this Motorola applications note, you see...) to be a minimal
machine, much in the way the Macintosh is--i.e. make the 6809 do EVERYTHING.  Add
to that limited memory (well, you can expand it, but memory so added isn't really
accessible in the way you'd like (i.e. for Level Two), and graphics that are only
so-so these days, and, as the man says in *Amadeus*, "Well, there we have it."

You might hit up the folks at Stellation (who make a 6809 and 68000 board for the
Apple)--maybe they've done something in that direction?

							James Jones