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From: ecs160s045@ucdavis.UUCP (Mark Nagel)
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Subject: Re: CoCo III - Still a Rumor?
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Date: Tue, 10-Jun-86 16:04:26 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 10 16:04:26 1986
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>      Mark Nagel said that he felt that a CoCo III would be a "farce".
> The Commodore C128 has sold over 600,000 units world-wide since its
> introduction.  A CoCo III running OS-9 Level II, reasonably well designed
> (not even an exceptional implimentation) would be a far more potent
> machine and could easily account for a substantial chunk of sales.
> A machine that makes money is no farce.
> 
>      Besides, I prefer the 6809 over the 68000.  It gives the impression
> of being more orthogonal.
> 
>                                         Cheers! -- Jim O.
> 
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> James Omura, Barrister & Solicitor, Toronto
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   I did *not* say that the CoCo III would be a farce - I said that the fact
that Tandy would ever release one is a farce.  Apparently, the rumor mill is
still running and some people believe that Tandy will actually produce a 
new CoCo - maybe they will and maybe they won't.  The fact is that if they do
now, they will be way behind the game with the Amiga and Atari ST picking up
most of the sales.  I also don't see how you can call the 6809 instruction
set orthogonal as compared to the 68000.  The 68000 is a superset of the
PDP-11 which is by far more orthogonal than the 6809.  For instance, I can
not auto-increment one of the 6809's "general registers", only the index
regs.  The 68000 has a *very* orthogonal instruction set.

			    - Mark Nagel
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