[Coco] Re: [Color Computer] Re: CoCo video?

[Mark McDougall]

jdaggett at gate.net wrote:

> A 20 MHz 6809 MPU with 8MB of external SDRAM, 2 ide ports, a parallel
> port, 2 serial ports, 2 usb ports and a 512 color VGA module is actually
> doable. This should fit into a Xilinx XC2S300E part.  Even add some flash
> and a SPI port to access CF cards would enrich a fantasy even more.

Definitely so. But the problem is that writing the software to utilise all 
this would take several times longer to develop than the hardware itself.

Regards,

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