[Coco] 128 or 512?

Mark Marlette mark at cloud9tech.com
Fri Dec 15 10:08:17 EST 2006


I have 4- 512k machines for testing purposes. I have over 100-128k machines.

Mark
Cloud-9
http://www.cloud9tech.com



Quoting paulh96636 at aol.com:

> I have 1meg, 512kb & 128kb. IIRC, KQIII requires 512K...?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jcewy at swbell.net
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Sent: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 7:25 PM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] 128 or 512?
>
>
> Diego Barizo wrote:
>> I was talking with "The other Bob" about program development, and we
>> were not sure if we should release versions of our programs that use
>> 512Kb of RAM.
>>
>> Do you have 128 or 512 in your CoCo?
>> You can answer to my email address, to avoid "traffic jams" in the list,
>> but please, reply. You will be helping the development of new CoCo software.
>>
>> Diego
>> http://coco.sclaudia.net
>>
> Well, why not release versions that support 512K?  Is it a matter of  
>  having too
> much support or inventory overhead?  I have 2 512K and 1 128K CoCo   
> 3, and a 1M
> TC-9 (with problems).
>
>
> Mike Pepe wrote:
>> .... I'd guess most of us here have at least 512k, but probably the
>> majority of CoCo 3's left in the world are still 128k
>>
> The question is, how many people _who are still using CoCo 3s_ don't
> have more than 128k, and wouldn't be willing to upgrade for a worthy
> program?
>
> The best option, in my mind, would be to have both 128K and 512K
> versions.  But if a program requires 512K, why hold it back just because
> some people can't run it?  If the memory is well-used, it means a more
> featureful program for those who can run it.
>
> JCE
>
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