[Coco] [Color Computer] RE: [CoCo] Atari and Amiga comparison

[Joel Ewy]

Dan Olson wrote:
>>> I've often wondered what things would have been like if the coco had
>>> been built around a 68000 unstead of a 6809.
>>
>> It would have cost $2000 instead of $200, no one would have bought
>> one, and we
>> wouldn't be talking about it.
>
> Or Tandy might have named it the Model 16 instead :)  More realistly
> they would have introduced such a machine in the mid-80s as the follow
> on to the coco2.  Too bad there was never a 16 bit follow-on to the
> 6809 that fell somewhere between the 6809 and 68000, similar to the
> 65816.
>
>     Dan
>
The cool thing is that we're now living in a time when hobbyists can
design and implement their own CPUs in FPGAs.  We may yet see what a
CoCo with a 16/32-bit 6x09-compatible processor running at 40MHz would
look like...

JCE
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