Path: utzoo!attcan!telly!lethe!yunexus!xrtll!silver From: silver@xrtll.uucp (Hi Ho Silver) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Microsoft And Friends Message-ID: <1990Nov25.003037.5814@xrtll.uucp> Date: 25 Nov 90 00:30:37 GMT References: <4624@gara.une.oz.au> <1990Nov9.193424.1196@amd.com> <21188022@macs.UUCP> <2938@gmuvax2.gmu.edu> Reply-To: silver@xrtll.UUCP (Hi Ho Silver) Organization: Not around here, pal! Lines: 17 In article <2938@gmuvax2.gmu.edu> 2113av@gmuvax2.UUCP (John Porter) writes: $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... The reason why Coherent is restricted to 64k segments is that it's a 286 operating system, not a 386 one, and the 286 doesn't allow segments to be larger than 64k. A future version for the 386 is promised ... BTW, for those interested in some critical reviews of Coherent, BYTE and PC Magazine have both discussed it recently; in each case, the conclusion was (to put it politely) that it's not for everyone. -- __ __ _ | ...!nexus.yorku.edu!xrtll!silver | always (__ | | | | |_ |_) |----------------------------------| searching __) | |_ \/ |__ | \ | if you don't like my posts, type | for ______________________| find / -print|xargs cat|compress | SNTF