Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!cmcl2!rutgers!dorm.rutgers.edu!medici From: medici@dorm.rutgers.edu (Mark Medici) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Coherent Message-ID: Date: 28 Aug 90 03:14:20 GMT References: <9008260325.AA24518@lightning.Berkeley.EDU> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 34 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? I bought, tried, and returned Coherent. Problems were: - Wouldn't run with my ESDI disk controller (won't work with SCSI controllers, either). - Not compatible with my AMI BIOS (though this may be fixed now.) - Limited to SMALL programming model!!! I found the last problem the most unacceptable. I was interested in learning more about Unix, but you can't even get a decent editor to compile in that environment! I definately don't recommend it. Don't just take my word for it, ask the same question in comp.os.minix and see what happens! -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Medici/SysProg3 * Rutgers University/CCIS * medici@elbereth.rutgers.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------