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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Coherent
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Date: 9 May 90 08:19:43 GMT
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In article <642166512.7077@minster.york.ac.uk> ken@SoftEng.UUCP (ken) writes:
>Can we have some information on this? be nice to find out to what
>degree code can be ported between them. E.g. if Coherent has a proper
>version of awk we could throw away bawk.

I love optimists.  The world would be so gloomy without them. Coherent
provides binary only.  The chance that it's system call interface is
exactly the same as MINIX' is smaller than epsilon.  Of course you could
modify MINIX to have the Coherent system call interface ...

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)