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From: bostrov@prism.cs.orst.edu (Vareck Bostrom)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: BSD<-->SunOS<-->Coherent Internetworking
Summary: Can I internetwork BSD SunOS and Coherent systems?
Keywords: Help Is It Possible
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Date: 10 Apr 91 06:54:41 GMT
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I have a few questions...

	I've been thinking of getting Coherent for my laptop PC (a 
	386 SX-16 MHZ). I have SCO System V/386 unix running on my
	ALR flaxcache 20386 and SunOS 4.1 on a SPARCstation 1, and
	Mach (BSD 4.3) running on my 68040 NeXTcube. Question is this:

	a) Is it possible to put a Coherent machine on my network?
	(TCP/IP Ethernet coax)

	b) What kind of performance should I expect from Coherent? I
	am rather dissappointed with the performance of SCO unix under
	the 80386, and am not going to bother if Coherent is not much 
	better.

	c) Does Coherent come with TCP/IP and stuff (nfs, etc.)?

	d) What is coherent's C compiler like? Is it as good as the c
	compilers on the NeXT, SPARC, and SCO - 386 machines?

	e) The ad says "20 MB disk". Is that really all? After seeing
	320+ MB disappear from my cube when I installed 2.0 Extended, that
	is hard to believe. 

	f) Does it come with netnews? 

	g) What about X11R4? I'd like to have it on all of my machines,
	as it is the only windowing system all of them seem to want to
	operate (I'd prefer NeXTStep, but NeXT isn't letting Sun use it..
	:)

That should do it. Thanks a bundle.