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From: markad@blake.acs.washington.edu (Mark Donnell)
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Subject: Re: Coherent, anybody?
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Date: 6 Jul 90 16:46:28 GMT
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Well, since everyone else has been passing on Coherent stories,
I think I will too. I received Coherent about 2 weeks ago (I got
it in about 12 days too). When I tried to boot it up, I got to the
'?' prompt, typed 'begin', and that was the end of that - reset 
button time. It dumped a set of register contents, said something
like 'System Panic', and died. MWC had no real ideas, and Noone
on the net of Coherent mailing list had mentioned anything like that,
so I eventually sent it back (I probably would have had to anyway -
I needed to compile some rather large programs in it). Oh well.
I tried all of the 'black magic' that I could find - NumLock, Power
up instead of reboot, and something else I can't recall right now.
It could have been a bad disk, as someone on the net mentioned
recently, or it could have been machine incompatability.

In case you're interested, I'm on a Nascent (motherboard) 386-25,
discrete chip set, AMI (?)Aug 17, 1988 Bios, WD disk controller,
40 meg connor disk, teac 1.2M floppy, genoa vga.

Hope my experiences are as informative to you as they were to me.
Mark