[Coco] 1 or 2 meg upgrade

[Aaron Wolfe]

On Nov 22, 2014 2:56 AM, "Nick Marentes" <nickma2 at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>
> I'm must say that I'm in agreement with Aaron... "512K should be enough
for anyone!".   :)
>

Two points:  first, I am not suggesting that there is *no* reason to have
more memory.  I just think that the difficulty of adding more than 512k
compared to the benefit isn't a very good tradeoff.  The same benefits can
be obtained via easier approaches.  If its as simple as clicking an option
in an emulator, go for it of course.  If you have to physically alter your
coco.. Maybe its time to reconsider what you're trying to do and whether
there are other ways to do it.

Second, the famous "640k is enough for anyone" quote looks silly now in the
context of newer machines with more capable CPUs, etc.  However, if you
apply the quote only to the original IBM PC, it remains true today.  More
than 640k on an 8086 makes no more sense now than it did when those words
were spoken (if they actually ever were, I think there is some doubt about
that being a true story).  On a 286, 386 etc of course things are
different, but the coco hasn't seen any architecture advances like that.

-Aaron