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From: twong@civil.ubc.ca (Thomas Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Coherent - Unix for $99.95 ??
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Date: 11 Jul 90 22:14:16 GMT
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Hello. I have just read an ad in Byte magazine about a Unix implementation
for IBM PC/ATs called Coherent. The claim in the ad is that 
"Coherent is a virtual clone of UNIX.... Coherent embodies the original 
tenet of UNIX: small is beautiful....smaller, faster... better... Requiring 
only 10 megabytes of disk space... Coherent can reside with DOS ...
Coherent is a powerful multi-user, multi-tasking development system.
With a complete UNIX-compatible kernel... Coherent also comes with Lex 
and Yacc, a complete C compiler and a full set of nearly 200 UNIX commands 
including text processing, program development, administrative and 
maintenance commands... And with UUCP... It came from Mark Wiliams Company, 
people who've developed C compilers for DEC, INtel, Wang and thousands of 
professional programmers... complete technical support via telephone. And 
from the original system developers... With a 60-day money-back no-hassles 
guarantee" All for $99.95 ?? When Xenix 286 is about $1500 ??
Has anyone actually purchased this product? Is it as complete a package
as the ad make it sound? Does it have networking tools like ftp/telnet/ping 
... which wasn't mentioned in the ad? And sendmail... etc?
Comments? Is this just another gimmick, a scale down version that really
can't do much? Or is this the real thing, and Unix can actually be had
by us common folks, for home use even.


Thomas.

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