[Coco] What would your ideal CoCo cartridge do?

[billg999 at cs.uofs.edu]

> Someone mentioned they wouldn't want to use another computer as a
> server. Well, build the server on a cartridge, and have the cart work
> like a serial port. The server software could be pre-loaded, and could
> be transparent to the CoCo. An RPi could be used, but there are other
> small ARM based computers that would work, some smaller than the RPi
> (but a bit more costly). Maybe build an entirely new board, stripping
> the unnecessary functions of the RPi...

Now that brings up even more ideas.  How fast would DriveWire be
if the interface were parallel instead of serial?  RPi in a cart
talking directly to the bus hosting DriveWire and all the bells
and whistles that gets you. :-)

bill