Xref: utzoo comp.unix.admin:385 comp.unix.msdos:146 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!decwrl!wuarchive!emory!att!cbnews!mvadh From: mvadh@cbnews.att.com (andrew.d.hay) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.msdos Subject: Re: Concurrent UNIX Summary: coherent & dos executables Keywords: cheap UNIX, PC, MS-DOS Message-ID: <1990Oct26.124012.13358@cbnews.att.com> Date: 26 Oct 90 12:40:12 GMT References: <11040@hacgate.UUCP> <1990Oct25.222951.926@mentor.com> Followup-To: comp.unix.admin Distribution: na Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 18 In article <1990Oct25.222951.926@mentor.com>, sboyle@mentor.com (Sean Boyle x1542) writes: > I have been using it for some months now. I wanted an alternative to > messy dos and coherent was cheap. I have been able to compile quite a > few unix utilities and things on it successfully with minor tweaking. > > It is something like an early (V6 or V7) sort of UNIX. The complaints > I have are: [] > Besides all that, It is MUCH better to me than MSDOS. pardon me if the answer is obvious, but i've forgotten: will coherent run dos executables? -- Andrew Hay +------------------------------------------------------+ Ragged Individualist | You just have _N_O idea! It's the difference | AT&T-BL Ward Hill MA | between _S_H_O_O_T_I_N_G a bullet and _T_H_R_O_W_I_N_G it! | a.d.hay@att.com +------------------------------------------------------+