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From: brendan@cs.widener.edu (Brendan Kehoe)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Info Requested on Low Cost Unix Alternatives
Message-ID: <1991Mar01.210319.7266@cs.widener.edu>
Date: 1 Mar 91 21:03:19 GMT
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In <26178@adm.brl.mil>, S12187TJ%SEMASSU.BITNET@yalevm.ycc.yale.edu writes:
>What exactly is missing from the $100 Unix clone Coherent?

 BSD. It's System V with some PD stuff thrown in and a LOT of bugs.
Don't depend upon this for a full-fledged system (e.g. more things
core dumped in my attempt to build Elm on it than anything I've ever
seen).

 It's cool as an experiment, but not to rely upon. Yet.

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