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From: bill@polygen.uucp (Bill Poitras)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Coherent Unix?
Message-ID: <909@redford.UUCP>
Date: 20 Nov 90 22:52:27 GMT
References: <5655@crash.cts.com>
Reply-To: bill@redford.UUCP (Bill Poitras(X258))
Organization: Polygen Corporation, Waltham, MA
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In article <5655@crash.cts.com> jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau) writes:
>ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) writes:
>True Unix my foot.  It's not compatable with anything at the system call and
>library level.  Doesn't comply with SVID (System V Interface Definitions) or
>POSIX.  Also, CCCP (Coherent-to-Coherent CoPy) is broken.  Byte did a review
>of Coherent.  Turned out to be a much bigger lemon than I had even envisioned.
Did you try to test it for System V7 compatibility?  Coherent is in the
class of Minix which is a V7 clone.  More existed before SYSV and BSD.  

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