Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.6.2.17 $; site uokvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uokvax!emjej From: emjej@uokvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.6809 Subject: more on RMS, and the Model 9? Message-ID: <3500073@uokvax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Feb-85 14:33:00 EST Article-I.D.: uokvax.3500073 Posted: Wed Feb 6 14:33:00 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Feb-85 06:34:39 EST Lines: 26 Nf-ID: #N:uokvax:3500073:000:1351 Nf-From: uokvax!emjej Feb 6 13:33:00 1985 In the latest issue of *CoCo Ads* (a classified ad sheet for the Color Computer), someone from Spectrum Projects wrote a short article on the Motorola RMS chip set (remember Mike Knudsen's notes from early 1984?). It looks pretty neat. Does the stuff I'd heard (up to 500*640 graphics, 32 colors from a palette of 4096--the latest *High Technology*, in an article on graphics hardware, shows a magnified portion of an image made with the RMS set which looks quite nice--25*80 text (not mixable with graphics, alas)) and some things I'd not heard, such as support for lightpen, various text attributes (underscore, blink, reverse video, and color(!)), and compatibilty mode with current VDG and SAM used in the CoCo. Well, not *quite* compatible; not until RS starts using the new version of the VDG with a reasonable character set including lower case. The article also says what was posted as being mentioned in Dvorak's *InfoWorld* column, i.e. that a souped-up 6809 box called the Model 9 would be coming from Radio Shack. They further say (I didn't get to see the Dvorak column, alas) that it will use the RMS chip set and that one should think of it "as a Model 4 with color and OS-9 Level Two." They also mentioned that the RMS manual from Motorola was 146 pages long. I'm slightly daunted, but I'll try to get one anyway. James Jones