Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!unido!cat!incom!orfeo!jrix!joachim From: joachim@jrix.radig.de (Joachim Riedel) Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent Subject: Re: Coherent vs. MINIX Message-ID: <1991Jun15.182344.1950@jrix.radig.de> Date: 15 Jun 91 18:23:44 GMT References: Distribution: comp Organization: Joachim Riedel, Offenbach, West Germany Lines: 44 nheu@heuvax.wimsey.bc.ca (Norman Heu) writes: >Coherent will probably be easier to get running out of the box. That's one advantage. One of my friends bought MINIX, was unable to install it (no, not a "silly user", a very good C-programmer) and now has Coherent. Never had problems in installing. >>what do YOU think? For an electronics engineering student >>wanting to "prepare" >>programs for bigger UNIX machines on his "tiny" 386SX at home, Coherent seems to be enough for an electronics engineer like me. >The main reason that I would choose MINIX over Coherent is the >386 support which is available for MINIX and not for Coherent. I still believe that the 386 support in MINIX is still "unofficial", the version modified by Bruce Evans. Maybe I'm wrong and there is now an "official" 386 version available. I think that Coherent also will have 386 support in the near future and it's now 66 % Percent the price of MINIX (here in Germany !) (Coherent: 198.-DM MINIX: 298.-DM) >Also, there seems to be more things happening with MINIX. >Checkout comp.os.minix.. it's much more active than >comp.os.coherent. comp.os.coherent is a new group, installed in 1991. I don't know when comp.os.minix was created but at least it's 15 months older. And most questions there are about problems installing MINIX, problems with Devices or whatever. I myself never had bigger problems with different hardware I used with Coherent. And with MINIX you have to depend on the Net-support because MINIX has less essential tools. Nevertheless MINIX has really several advantages. But I won't believe it because I am a Coherent fanatic. Cheers, Joachim +---------------------------------------+-------+-------------------+-------+ | Joachim Riedel | @ @ | Don't worry, | @ @ | | Geschwister-Scholl-Strasse 48 | \_/ | keep smiling | \_/ | | D-6050 Offenbach am Main +-------+-------------------+-------+ | Tel. +49 69 85 62 25 | joachim@jrix.radig.de | +---------------------------------------+-----------------------------------+