Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!dsinc!cdin-1!ki4pv!macs!dfc From: dfc@macs.UUCP (David Caldwell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Microsoft And Friends Summary: COHERENT Unix... Message-ID: <21188022@macs.UUCP> Date: 18 Nov 90 16:36:19 GMT References: <4624@gara.une.oz.au> <1990Nov9.193424.1196@amd.com> Organization: Stetson University, DeLand FL Lines: 30 In article , steve@Advansoft.COM (Steve Savitzky) writes: |> In article <1990Nov15.191312.13301@amd.com> phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai) writes: |> In article <1990Nov11.174012.9566@gupta.portal.com> few@gupta.portal.com (Frank Whaley) writes: |> |In article <1990Nov9.193424.1196@amd.com> phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai) writes: |> |>Actually, OS/2 has more sophisticated technology than Unix. |> |> Here's another aspect: price. How much would you have to pay to |> get Unix with a GUI? I see Interactive advertising X Windows for |> $695, if I understand their ad correctly. Is this in addition |> to Unix? Ouch. And what kind of applications can you get for it? |> At what price? |> |> Well, we paid exactly nothing for the MIT X distribution plus the |> stuff that's been posted to comp.sources.x. That's 280MB of SOURCE |> CODE for 221 applications (plus many we haven't built), the server, |> the libraries, several different toolkits, at least two application |> builders, and so on. And that's not even counting emacs and TeX, |> which work just fine with X. What about COHERENT? It lists for $99.95, claims UNIX kernel compatibility and maintains that you can still run your MS-DOS software. It also allows multiple users (try that with OS/2) and multitasking. Along with the MIT X distribution, you can have the power of UNIX with a graphical operating environment. No flames please, this is just a suggestion and I have no experience with COHERENT so this may not be a feasible suggestion. David Calddwell Stetson University