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From: gooley@sunb7 (Markian "Party Mineral" Gooley)
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Subject: Re: Coherent info
Summary: why small-model?
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Well, I was taken in by the hype and bought Coherent.  If they can't
provide longer pointers, back it goes.  Their ad talked nonsense about
"gigabytes of public-domain software"; a lot of that is going to be a right
pain in the keister to port if they provide only small memory model.
Otherwise it looks like a good old-style (V 7 or so?) Unix that would
be fun to have on an old '286 box.  Why MWC insists on shooting itself in
the foot in this way is beyond me.