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From: csantiag@potpourri.UUCP (Carlos Santiago)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m6809
Subject: Future of CoCo3
Message-ID: <750@potpourri.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 1-Dec-87 12:08:41 EST
Article-I.D.: potpourr.750
Posted: Tue Dec  1 12:08:41 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 7-Dec-87 06:49:29 EST
Organization: Gould CSD, Fort Lauderdale, FL
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Keywords: future, coco3, graphics


   I believe that if the CoCo is to survive 10 years, some great
improvements must be made in the graphics hardware, memory and the
system components.

   The greatest problem is that A full blown coco system is made of too
many parts i.e. coco, disk ctlr., MPI.... These system components  must be
integrated into one package, and some kind of standard bus should be added.
The MPI is just an extension of the ROM port, if some standard bus was
created much faster controller boards could be designed that would not slow
the microprocessor down.

   In order to meet the demand of todays graphics environments, the
coco graphics hardware must be enhanced to support hardware windows and
dma to move large blocks of display memory. These enhancements will off
load the 6809 and increase the overall performance of the coco.

   Expanding the total memory from 512k to 1 or 2 meg will be a requirement
to run large programs and graphics intensive applications in the future.

-- 
                  Gould, CSD, Home of the Firebreathers 
                    The opinions expressed are my own.
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