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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: The GNU Manifesto
Message-ID: <1801@sugar.UUCP>
Date: 6 Apr 88 10:37:26 GMT
References: <153@mozart.UUCP> <1351@sugar.UUCP> <9591@tekecs.TEK.COM> <4249@chinet.UUCP>
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In article <4249@chinet.UUCP>, dag@chinet.UUCP (Daniel A. Glasser) writes:
> Actually, such a system does exist to a great extent.  The Coherent system,
> from Mark Williams Company (available now for the IBM PC and other 80x86
> machines) has most of the above system componants -- Note that the kernel
> is NOT unix V7, but is compatible (not a port, a functional copy), runs
> faster than unix V7 on every machine I've seen it on, has named pipes,
> allows forcing of stdout non-buffered to anything, record locking, enhanced
> TTY (not sysV), some BSD extras.

Does it (a) provide all the goodies that come with V7 (including lex, yacc,
awk, sed, etc...), (b) have some sort of standard administration files (V7,
BSD, or USG format... makes no difference), and (c) support UUCP?

How much does it cost?

> The problem is that MWC has not sold very many of these systems over the
> last few years, so the development of improvements has not been economical
> for them.  They are now considering adding message passing IPC, tcp/ip,
> sysV/BSD tty driver (support of layers/job control), and other features.
> This work may or may not be released in the 80x86 version, or any version,
> depending on whether they believe that it will make them any money.

What model are they using for IPC? (Please, please, put the ports and memory
segments in the file system. Please. Please.)

And how about virtual terminals, for those of us with a windowing fetish?

> Build a better system and people don't always beat a path to your door.
-- 
-- Peter da Silva  `-_-'  ...!hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!sugar!peter
-- Disclaimer: These U aren't mere opinions... these are *values*.