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From: 2113av@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (John Porter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Microsoft And Friends
Message-ID: <2938@gmuvax2.gmu.edu>
Date: 21 Nov 90 06:33:13 GMT
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In article <21188022@macs.UUCP> dfc@macs.UUCP (David Caldwell) writes:
>What about COHERENT?  It lists for $99.95, claims UNIX kernel
>compatibility and maintains that you can still run your MS-DOS software.
>with COHERENT so this may not be a feasible suggestion.

Not intended as a flame, but I believe the ads claim no such thing about
runnig MS-DOS software. Yes, technically you can still run your MS-DOS
software, but only by booting your DOS partition. NOT under Coherent.
If you boot from the Coherent partition, the only link you get with the
DOS world is a special utility which will read/write files in a DOS file-
system from Coherent.  No execution. 
As has been mentioned too (painfully) frequently, X and other large
programs are a long ways off for Coherent, since the compiler currently
only compiles small model.  They managed emacs and kermit in 64k...
--jp