[Coco] CoCo Video Player

[Frank Pittel]

While the hardware is the reason for software, hardware without software is just so much junk sitting in a
pile. The two go hand in hand. All the software in the world won't make a Coco capable of gigabit ethernet!


On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 12:20:35PM -0500, Boisy G. Pitre wrote:

> As a software guy, I have to agree with Steve.  I can only play in the software world due to the designs of the hardware engineers.  The hardware creates the world in which the software lives.

> 

> Clever as DriveWire may be, it ultimately is a software solution and is limited to the bit banger's physical speed limitations.

> 

> I bow down to the hardware gods!

> 

> On Mar 18, 2011, at 10:47 AM, Steve Batson wrote:

> 

> > Adding my 2 cents...I'm actually kinda of surprised to see this type of 

> > debate on this list....Yes hardware and software depend on each other, both 

> > are required to make everything work. I have to disagree that Software is 

> > more powerful than hardware since the hardware is ultimately what makes it 

> > all happen in the end. Yes the software directs actions and does all sorts 

> > of calculations and such, but that is all because the hardware is busy 

> > working on what the software tells it to do.

> > 

> > I would submit that any task you might have software do, could be faster, 

> > more efficient and more robust if implemented completely in hardware. I'm 

> > not saying that everything should be, or is feasible to do in hardware, I'm 

> > just trying to make a point. As someone already said, you can't make 

> > software do more than hardware is capable off. The main thing that software 

> > has over hardware, is that you have the flexibility to change things 

> > anytime, including on the fly. We wouldn't have computers as we do today if 

> > it wasn't for software of course. 

> > 

> > And just because you might be able to use software to force the hardware to 

> > do something that maybe it wasn't necessarily designed for, doesn't make it 

> > more powerful than hardware. The hardware is a wall for the software. Once 

> > you have written the tightest, most efficient machine code that can be 

> > written, you hit a brick wall. You then need that next more powerful, 

> > faster hardware to go further. 

> > 

> > Bottom line, use the right tools for the job. With computers, it's Hardware 

> > and Software. Regardless of what you are trying to do, using the best of 

> > both will get the best results.

> > 

> 

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