[Coco] Any reason to put a 6309 in a Coco2?

[Neil Morrison]

Some ROMPAKs won't run on a 3. Cyrus comes to mind.

Neil

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Guin" <johnguin at hotmail.com>


> Hello all,
>
> My wife got me a 6309 for Christmas, and I am itching to install
it.
> However, I can't think of a reason to put it in a Coco2, which is
all I have
> available at the moment.
>
> So can anyone think of a reason to install it in a Coco2?
>
> And a related question:  was the Coco3 100% Coco2 compatible?  Was
there
> anything (at all) a Coco 1 or 2 could do which a Coco3 could not?
It seems
> to me if the answer to this question is no, there is nothing a
Coco2 can do
> which a Coco3 can not, then there is no reason to install the chip
in a
> Coco2.