Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!turnkey!orchard.la.locus.com!prodnet.la.locus.com!lccma.bos.locus.com!mjl From: mjl@lccma.bos.locus.com (Mike Leibensperger) Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent Subject: Re: Coherent 386 (really, suggestions for features) Summary: Source and/or binary compatibility! Kill DOS or kill "Bob" or kill ME! Message-ID: <25678@oolong.la.locus.com> Date: 24 Jun 91 17:07:29 GMT References: <9106211524.20@rmkhome.UUCP> <1991Jun23.211522.15805@cheops.qld.tne.oz.au> Sender: news@locus.com Organization: Locus Computing Corp --- Boston office Lines: 16 In some article too deeply >>>>'ed to figure who wrote it, someone writes: >It is in development. MWC has asked for suggestions here on features to be >included. They say it will be released in middle to late 1992. IMHO the most important feature/goal for Coherent 386, aside from providing 32-bit virtual memory, should be source (and possibly binary, if the state of the standardization effort permits) compatibility with OSF/1/SVR4/Posix. That and X/Motif for a few hundred bucks, and they might have a DOS killer. Heh, heh. mjl -- Michael J. Leibensperger "None are so deeply enslaved Locus Computing Corp./Boston as those who falsely believe 25 Burlington Mall Road they are free." Burlington MA 01803, (617)229-4980 x169 -- J. W. von Goethe