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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Coherent Unix?
Message-ID: <2353@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 23 Nov 90 02:34:20 GMT
References: <5655@crash.cts.com>
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In article <5655@crash.cts.com> jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau) 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.

  I think that it is a V7 clone, much like Morrow's Z80 based "Micronix"
of years ago. Actually that may have been V6... a multitasking o/s with
compiler for $99 is not all that much of a lemon, even if it isn't UNIX.
That just means that it won't be the right solution for all problems.

  Wendin had unix and VMS clones out some years ago, which would run
three users on an XT, with some happiness. They were subsets, too, but
useful if your problem fit their solution.
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