[Coco] How was the Fest?

[Christopher R. Hawks]

On Fri, 10 May 2024 20:07:29 -0500
John Mark Mobley via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:

> All,
> 
> I mentioned my idea of 8 CoCos in 1 and someone said ...
> Well, you can have that now with a good emulator. Just open 8 CoCo
> emulators at once and you are done.
> So, try it and see how you like it.
> 
> -John Mark Mobley
> 

JohnMark:

    Or you could boot NitrOS-9 and open 4 (or 8) windows and do the
same thing. Well, except that the programs in the other windows would
continue to run...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: johnmarkmelanie at gmail.com <johnmarkmelanie at gmail.com> 
> Sent: Wednesday, May 8, 2024 10:02 PM
> To: 'CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts' <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Cc: 'Allen Huffman' <alsplace at pobox.com>
> Subject: RE: [Coco] How was the Fest?
> 
> Allen,
> 
> <--- Snip --->
> 
> I learned about the 2 MB MMU on the Cloud-9 Protector+. Will this
> work with DMA?
> I was told that if I wrote a program that made good use of the 512 kB
> RAM that was interesting to people and could be expanded to 8 MB then
> the hardware people would be willing to make and sell an 8 MB board.
> The software people say if we had the hardware then we would wright
> the software.
> The hardware people say if we had the software then we would make the
> hardware.
> VCC has emulated 8 MB already and it is not used for much that I know
> of. So, give me your ideas of what we would use 8 MB for.
> I would like to use 512 kB of RAM to make four 128 kB CoCo 3's.
> Only one CoCo 3 would be active at a time and all the others would be
> paused in suspended animation.
> CoCo 3 #1 would be used to write code.
> CoCo 3 #2 would be used to get help on a programming language.
> CoCo 3 #3 would be used as an ASCII terminal.
> CoCo 3 #4 would be used to compile and test the code.
> 
> And with more RAM we could add some more.
> CoCo 3 #5 could be a spreadsheet with graphs.
> CoCo 3 #6 could be a game.
> CoCo 3 #7 could run Forth.
> CoCo 3 #8 could be a calendar.
> CoCo 3 #9 could be a notes taking app.
> 
> If this works, then we can see about 2 MB or 8 MB using an emulator.
> 
> -John Mark Mobley
> 
> 
> 




Christopher R. Hawks
HAWKSoft
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"The plural of anecdote is not data."
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