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From: emjej@uokvax.UUCP
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Subject: more on RMS, and the Model 9?
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Date: Wed, 6-Feb-85 14:33:00 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb  6 14:33:00 1985
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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