[Coco] CoCo

[Richard E. Crislip]

On Sat, 9 Jan 2016 19:38:54 -0500
"Kip Koon" <computerdoc at sc.rr.com> wrote:

> Hi Guys,
> 
> After looking at Stacy's CoCo 2 collection and reading the comment
> about a CoCo Supercomputer, I remembered reading about a cluster of
> Commodore 64s that were connected together into a supercomputer like
> system.  I have been wondering for a long while now about what it
> would take to create CoCo Supercomputer cluster utilizing as many
> CoCos as we could get together in one place and even over the
> internet now that we have Drivewire 4 capabilities.  What do you all
> think?  Please keep the comments as positive as possible.  I do
> appreciate any serious thoughts, ideas and comments that could lead
> toward this goal.  Who knows how long this would take.  I'd like to
> ultimately see all possible Coco 1s, 2s, 3s, CoCo3FPGAs,
> Multicomp09s, and any other platform that can run 6809 software like
> NitrOS-9 come together.  I'm thinking that maybe NitrOS-9 could be
> used for this purpose since it has proven to be an excellent
> adaptable 6809/6309 Operating system. I think this would be a very
> interesting project for the community as a whole.  Has anybody else
> been thinking along these lines?
> 

Hi Kip, I attended the Akron Linux Users Group last Thursday and the
member giving the talk described clustering older X-Boxes together to
form a super-computer and I wondered then if this was feasible with
the CoCo. Thanks for asking the question.