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From: joachim@jrix.radig.de (Joachim Riedel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: NEW USER
Message-ID: <1991Jun07.171402.17230@jrix.radig.de>
Date: 7 Jun 91 17:14:02 GMT
References: <1991Jun6.041604.7361@ncep1.uucp>
Organization: Joachim Riedel, Offenbach, West Germany
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Hi,

you mentioned my name so I have to (and like to) reply.

n931a@pnet16.cts.com (Et1 Ryan) writes:

>        Having purchased COHERENT only about a week ago, and experienced
>several "make" crashes (regarding their own shareware programs), I fail to see
>the attraction of this program, (or at this moment, any UNIX program). 
>Perhaps this conversation could share a little insight on why they are fond of
>Coherent, (Joachim???), and what they use it for.

I once got a old copy of Coherent 2.3.43 as a gift. But only tried it a
little bit and still thought that the support of it  "died". So I never
send the registration card to MWC.
I always was interested in UNIX so I tried to learn more about it. It is
more interesting than DOS and I decided to buy Interactive 386/ix,
Now I have my own system ( jrix ) with 386/ix (my initials JR and /ix put
together) and I liked News and Mailing in the UNIX-World. You met a lot
of nice guys from all over the world. It cost me a lot of money but it
was great fun.

Once a friend told me that he has ordered Coherent 3.0.0. I first thought:
"What's that ?". But then I was a bit interested, looked at it and the price
and send a fax to MWC. They offered me an update from 2.3.43 (once cost $1000)
to 3.1.0 for $70 and I decided to buy it, also the Device driver kit.
I liked it and installed it on my laptop, 16 MB for DOS, 32 MB for Coherent.
(now I have 70 MB and only Coherent)

In the mean time I got a MAIL from a guy in northern Germany who send me
three diskettes with SOftware for Coherent. 
So I was more and more interested in this small UNIX. 

You asked me for what purpose I use it for:

Just for fun. It was a bad disease:  the computing feaver. Once infected
you always be ill. I use it now for News and mail (joachim@jrmini.radig.de,
JRMINI = the ultimate Coherent System), porting programs, waste the time
of friends for ftp'ing software for me to piggy (ZOO, WMAIL, TASS32,WNEWS3.0,
ORIGAMI), and boring this group with a lot of article junk.

But I never had problems like you. I found several bugs in Coherent, 
but never worried about. And I will work with Coherent as long I can afford
it.
If you don't like Coherent you should send it back. Maybe you will like
WINDOWS 3.0 or a the new DOS 5.0 with the task switcher of the shell.

Joachim

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