[Coco] How much memory

[RJRTTY at aol.com]

In a message dated  11/28/2010 1:07:10 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, 
aawolfe at gmail.com  writes:


>Modern OS9 systems do *not* have  a 2MB limitation of any kind.  The

>2MB limit is a CoCo  thing.




The original specs for a 6809 level II system from  Motorola 
called for a 2 mb limit.    Had Tandy kept to the  Motorola
design parameters for the Coco3 as they did with the Coco1  and
Coco2 it would have been fine.   Instead we got a  machine
designed by bean counters instead of engineers.

Roy