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From: paulba@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Paul T. Barton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m6809
Subject: RE: COCO and the 6309 ...
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Date: 14 Mar 90 17:15:04 GMT
Reply-To: paulba@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Paul T. Barton)
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> From tekgvs!tekcrl!zephyr.ens.tek.com!ogicse!caesar.cs.montana.edu
>      !samsung!munnari.oz.au!darrenr Wed Mar 14 09:03:40 PST 1990
> 
> 
>    You mentioned that you plugged a 6309 chip into your coco but dos failed
> to work.  Did the coco work without DOS ?
>  
>   It would be great to be able to run os9 on the coco3 at a decent speed..
> 
> Darren

	Darren:

	I tried to send mail, but I guess I haven't figured it put yet.

	The COCO wouldn't work at all, with or without DOS.  It seems
	that the 6309 doesn't like illegal codes.  The 6809 doesn't
	care if it sees illegal codes, just plows through. The 6309
	interrupts if it sees any illegal codes.  COCO obviously has
	illegal codes.  Besides the SAM can't go over ~2MHz. The SAM
	will run at 16MHz, I guess that the GIME will too.