[Coco] CoCo Board Stacking

[John E. Malmberg]

Frank Swygert wrote:
> Just an idea from a lurker: If you stack two CoCo boards in a case,

It would need to be a repack in a larger case obviously.

> couldn't they be linked in such a way that OS-9 could pass off almost 
> any process to the second processor?

There are several hardware problems to overcome for the coupling, but it 
is doable if you are determined enough.

It would probably be easier to start from scratch for the add on processor

The hardware and software for the interprocess communications is the issue.

The simplest thing would be to use the second processor as a dedicated 
I/O coprocessor.

In the end you would end up with something like the Cloud-9 superboard, 
but possibly with a dedicated processor.

-John
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