[Coco] What would a CoCo successor have to have as a minimum?

[Mark McDougall]

On 22/11/2010 9:03 AM, Theodore (Alex) Evans wrote:


> You can reduce memory contention through a

> number of means. For one thing there is such a thing as dual-port memory.


Which is very, very expensive. You won't be slapping 1/2 Meg of dual-port 
memory on a board, believe me!


> Maybe it is that I see higher resolutions as useful for other things than

> video games.


Perhaps, but you need to design for the worst case. A high resolution screen 
would be handy for developing (editing) and word processing. But even then, 
you might be moving/scolling windows with hundreds of kB of graphics data...

Regards,

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