[Coco] ...speaking of emulation on the CoCo

[Robert Gault]

I've never tried using a remote port under OS-9, but that is one 
approach. Connecting two Cocos running OS-9 should permit telling the 
remote to run a program and send back data. That is a distributed 
computing format rather than dual processor.

Robert Emery wrote:
> Just throwing this out there for conversational purposes. A while back we were
> discussing the possibility of emulating the Vectrex on a CoCo, and ISTR it was
> mentioned that the Vectrex has two processors... one for the main program and
> one to calculate vectors (in the background?) It was not totally ruled out that
> the CoCo3 could do it, but seemed doubtful.
> 
> It got me to wondering if it would be possible to connect two CoCo's together
> via the cartridge port to form a sort of dual-processor CoCo, with one of them
> becoming a "slave" to the other's instructions.
> 
> Any thoughts? What else could we do with such a setup?
> 
> Bob
> 
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