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From: 2113av@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (John Porter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Coherent Unix?
Message-ID: <2939@gmuvax2.gmu.edu>
Date: 21 Nov 90 06:40:38 GMT
References: <kbDrfFG00VAC02N5xk@andrew.cmu.edu> <1327@crpmks.UUCP> <14092@mcdphx.phx.mcd.mot.com>
Reply-To: 2113av@gmuvax2.UUCP (John Porter)
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In article <14092@mcdphx.phx.mcd.mot.com> df@phx.mcd.mot.com (Dale Farnsworth) writes:
>It appears to exactly duplicate the Version 7 Unix on a PDP-11 that I
>used in 1980 (except no source), with a few enhancements like clones of
>emacs and vi.  

Coherent does not have vi; it was felt by Mark Williams Co. that, given
a decent implementation of a decent editor like MicroEmacs, a bear like
vi was not necessary (I bet the code licensing had something to do with
it too).  I for one will not disagree with their decision.
--jp