Date   : Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:34:17 +0000
From   : zeem.uk@... (Alex Taylor)
Subject: Who the message is from...

2009/11/11 Jules Richardson <jules.richardson99@...>:
> Phill Harvey-Smith wrote:
>> Nitros9 (re-write of OS9 for CoCo/Dragon)
>
> That caught my attention :-) OS-9 seems to be a pretty slick OS from what I've
> seen - very low resource usage, but very capable. Not sure why it never gained
> ?more of a hold in the market, to be honest.

It can't help too much that most of the Dragons and Tandys in the UK
seem to have 32K of RAM or less. I've had 5 or 6 Dragon 32s, but the
only 64 I've seen in the flesh was at one of the retro shows. I also
once had a silver-coloured CoCo, that was even smaller (16K I think).
They all went on eBay eventually.

I know the Dragon 32 can be expanded to 64K, but it would seem that
most solutions involve in-depth hardware hacking, rather than a simple
ready-made add-on board.

-- 
Alex Taylor