Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!lll-winken!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ncar!gatech!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!skybridge!davisp From: davisp@skybridge.SCL.CWRU.Edu (Palmer Davis) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Re: Coherent (Mark Williams Unix) Keywords: coherent, green fuzzy bananas Message-ID: <1991Feb9.005242.5739@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> Date: 9 Feb 91 00:52:42 GMT References: Sender: news@usenet.ins.cwru.edu Distribution: comp Organization: TIDNU System Research Group Lines: 24 X-Post-Machine: olympus.scl.cwru.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: olympus.scl.cwru.edu In article cb@tamarack12.timbuk (Chris Brewster) writes: > >I'm a new owner of a 386 and >am at least intrigued by the ads for Mark Williams's Coherent. I'm told it's >based on an early version of Unix, has a 64K limit on various things, and is >slated to come out with a less limited version before long. Is anyone using >it? Is it nice? Is there sufficient user interest to spur third-party >software developement? The price keeps me interested. Thanks-- > The people to ask are over in comp.os.misc; there's a "Coherent Digest" that gets posted there every week or so, and they're pushing for a comp.os.coherent newsgroup. I would think that it would be similar to Minix in its capabilities but more stable and minus the sources. Many of the more popular utilities and applications written for 4.3 won't work in it (specifically, most of the GNU stuff). I suppose it really depends on what you intend to do with it... -- PTD -- -- Palmer T. Davis | davisp@scl.cwru.edu -OR- ptd2@po.cwru.edu Case Western Reserve University | {att,sun,decvax,uunet}!cwjcc!skybridge!davisp --------------------------------+---------------------+------------------------ Wake up and smell the cat food in your bank account. | Life is short.