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From: tyager@maxx.UUCP (Tom Yager)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: A Cheap UNIX clone ?
Message-ID: <53@maxx.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jul 90 00:18:38 GMT
References: <57528@bbn.BBN.COM> <12@tdw205.ed.ray.com> <4241@peora.ccur.com>
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In article <4241@peora.ccur.com>, tran@peora.ccur.com (Nhan Tran) writes:
>   If I don't program,  if I am probably the only user, if I don't run any
> major program,  the only thing I use it for is to send/receive mail (a mailing
> list server), would this system [Coherent from Mark Williams] be ok?
> 
> Nhan Tran

It should work just fine. The only problems I can see are two: 1) You'll
have to dedicate a system to it, and 2) It won't be useful for other
applications unless you're willing to compile them yourself.

There are pacakges for MS-DOS (RamNet comes to mind) that deliver UUCP,
mail and news capability to DOS. If those things are all you're after,
Coherent might be overkill. If you have even a single reason to want
to run UNIX specifically, either Coherent or Xenix-286 should serve you
well.

Good luck with whatever you choose.
(ty)

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