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From: darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: Mark Williams COHERENT OS ?
Keywords: New *nix clone from Mark Williams?
Message-ID: <1990Mar21.141525.9062@druid.uucp>
Date: 21 Mar 90 14:15:25 GMT
References: <437@eds1.UUCP>
Reply-To: darcy@druid.UUCP (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
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In article <437@eds1.UUCP> jdm1@eds1.UUCP (Jon McCown) writes:
>
>COHERENT *NIX CLONE FROM MARK WILLIAMS?
>
>Dr. Dobbs of this past month contained an ad for a *nix clone from Mark
>Williams Software, priced at $99.95.  According to the ad the system
>includes what is commonly known as the "development system" and "basic 
>networking utilities" (uucp et. al.)  From the ad's wording it sounds as
>though the OS runs in protected mode (286/386 only).
>
>The price of the offering is such that it sounds attractive for a home
>environment, but I wanted to 'sound the depths' and see if any users or
>other potential users had comments.   Info please, I will summarize.
>

This sounds great.  If it has RFS or it can be added then it just might
make *nix a real contender for the medium size business market.  Just
hang a few 286's off a big *nix system and instant network.

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