Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!decwrl!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!emory!hubcap!ncrcae!usceast!patterso From: patterso@usceast.UUCP (Mitchell Patterson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Coherent Message-ID: Date: 26 Aug 90 19:31:52 GMT References: <9008260325.AA24518@lightning.Berkeley.EDU> Lines: 27 byron@OCF.BERKELEY.EDU (Byron C. Go) writes: >In article <28293@nigel.ee.udel.edu> boutell@freezer.it.udel.edu (Tom Boutell) writes: >>- I'm interested in getting Coherent. For $99, it looks like a dream >>come true- a hacker's Unix, comfortable in one meg on a machine like >>mine, with UUCP and an ANSI C compiler standard. But is it gonna be >>willing to install on my XT hard drive/ controller? I'm guessing it >>won't be happy. >I too am interested in getting Coherent. Does anyone have information >that would be of help to me? >Thanks in advance. >regards, > byron (= Check the newsgroup comp.os.minix, which is devoted to discussion/code/flames about minix, a UNIX workalike for various machines. They've had heated discussion about Coherent recently and surely someone would be able to tell you more about it than I could. A lot of people on that group were upset that the Coherent cc wouldn't handle all of the PC memory models, as well as the fact that Coherent sells -- WITHOUT source -- something similar to UNIX v7, while Minix offers source and a v7 clone for about $10 less. I believe you can get Minix free from some FTP sites, tho' I don't know about the legality of it.