From: kelli217@gmail.corn.invalid   
      
   Michael Black wrote:   
   > The CoCo III was more like the "mainframe" 6809 systems that were   
   > intended for using OS-9.  It certainly seemed designed for OS-9   
   > than for anything else.  It did include the required paging hardware   
   > so you could move 8K segments of ram into the address space, and   
   > designate where it was, and of course had the registers so there   
   > was user and system space.  Better interrupt control also helped.   
      
   The CoCo3 came really close to being the ultimate 8-bit computer.   
      
   IMHO.   
      
   Note that I haven't crossposted this statement. :)   
      
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