[Coco] 512k & OS-9

[Leon Howell]

Richard Ivey <rrivey at ...> writes:

> 
> What does putting a 512k board in a COCO 3  actually do for it, anyway?  
>There isn't much out there that can  take advantage of it, right?  Or is it 
>for the "after-Tandy" era  software that has since come out.  Or is it
>bragging rights over  Atari and Commodores?  Thanks

Specificaly, under OS-9, you can run one Tandy application in 128k, up to 16 
in 512k. Of course it depends on how much memory the program takes, (Home 
Publisher, for example, takes more than average if I remember right.) and 
Multi-Vue reserves 3 windows for itself.