pve@ingreur.UUCP (Peter van Emst) (10/10/90)
As a response to several news questions and requests for first impressions I have tried to write something useful about COHERENT UNIX. (I have it only in house for 2 days.) I have ordered COHERENT direct from Mark Williams and had it in house within 10 days. (pretty fast if you consider that I am living in Holland) You will get a big size (>1000 pages) manual, 4 floppies and a small but complete instruction set how to install and the use of UUCP. Installation was easy and straight forward (this is my impression, but I am working with UNIX and DOS since several years) The first piece of code I was missing is the VI editor. This is for me really a pain in the neck, as I have decided several years ago to stick with VI. They supply a MicroEmacs editor and the ed and sed stuff |:(. environment and the UUCP they supply is working also with an internal modem. I am running the system on 1 Mb 386 with 71 Mb harddisk and have a Procomm link to connect another PC as terminal on the system. The C compiler is capable to do cross compilation, but I have tested only the basic working of the compiler. (no problems) I hope someone from Mark Wiliams is also reading netnews so they can give there ideas about possible future directions and supply customers with more info about the system. **************************************************************************** Peter van Emst Intergraph EHQ Holland pve@ingreur.uucp !!!!! I speak for myself, not for Intergraph !!!!! ****************************************************************************