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From: larry@pylos.cchem.berkeley.edu (Raymond L. June)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: Coherent, anybody?
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Date: 11 Jun 90 15:54:54 GMT
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In article <3058@crash.cts.com>, jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau)
writes:
|> cattanac@clitus.cs.uiuc.edu (Scott Cattanach) writes:
|> >rose@galtee.cs.wisc.edu (Scott Rose) writes:
|> >
|> >>Anybody out there interested in a Coherent mailing list?  I'm having a few
|> >>problems with things like the installable device drivers that might profit
|> >>from some discussion.  I'm assuming that technical support at Mark
Williams
|> >>will be kind of iffy, particularly at first.  Such a list might also be a
|> >>handy clearinghouse mechanism for ported software; I'm having a stab at
|> >>"less" and RCS myself at the moment.  Interested parties send me
return mail
|> >>while I scramble around looking for a suitable place to set up an
alias, if
|> >>the interest level should warrant.  Should somebody be in a
position to offer
|> >>to administer the thing, all the better...
|> >
|> >What I wanna know is will it work on a 386SX?
|> 
|> Yes it will, but don't expect it to utilitize any of the features of
the 386. 
|> Coherent is a 286 based OS.
|> 
|> Anything that will run on a 86, 186, 286, or 386 will run on a 386SX with
|> respect to instruction set compatability.  Whether a piece of software is
|> compatable in question depends on your BIOS and the chip set on your
|> motherboard.  If your 386SX motherboard has one of the more compatable chip
|> sets on it or is made by one of the major motherboard manufacturers,
then you
|> should be in good shape.
|>

This is quite true. I have a PC Brand 386/20 that uses the C&T chips set and
AMI386 BIOS. Coherent refuses to even boot on the beast. MWC says that
they have problems with older AMI BIOS's - mine is dated 4/30/89 and PC Brand
says that it's the newest BIOS they distribute. MWC has a 60 day return
policy that I'm going to exercise. I need the PC too much to return it...
  
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