gast@quads.uchicago.edu (christopher gareth gaston) (03/15/91)
Does anyone out there have any experience with the Mark Williams Company's $99 version of Unix? Is it really Unix? How compatible is it? Specifically, is it possible to compile and run the GNU stuff under it (emacs, gcc, etc.)? Any thoughts on the subject would be appreciated. Thanks, Gareth Gaston gast@midway.uchicago.edu University of Chicago
raymond@math.berkeley.edu (Raymond Chen) (03/16/91)
In article <1991Mar15.143012.22653@midway.uchicago.edu>, gast@quads (christopher gareth gaston) writes: >Does anyone out there have any experience with the Mark Williams Company's >$99 version of Unix? A complete summary of net.discussion of Mark Williams Company's `Coherent' system is available for ftp from math.princeton.edu as the file pub/rjc/csip/coherent.Z. It also contains the address of the coherent mailing list. (I deign to call it `complete' because it contains comments dating back to the prerelease announcement of the package a year ago next week. It also contains email addresses of dozens of people who have asked for Coherent information in the past, so you can ask them for summaries of whatever they received via email.) Those who cannot ftp may instead send email to rjc@math.princeton.edu with NO SUBJECT and contaning the lines path raymond@math.berkeley.edu send coherent end REPLACE raymond@math.berkeley.edu WITH YOUR ADDRESS before sending.
rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) (03/18/91)
In article <1991Mar15.143012.22653@midway.uchicago.edu> gast@quads.uchicago.edu (christopher gareth gaston) writes: > >Does anyone out there have any experience with the Mark Williams Company's >$99 version of Unix? Is it really Unix? How compatible is it? >Specifically, is it possible to compile and run the GNU stuff under >it (emacs, gcc, etc.)? Any thoughts on the subject would be appreciated. Mark Williams UNIX, which is called Coherent, is V7 compatible with V5 extensions. These include shared memory, message passing, and semaphores. It's chief disadvantage is a small mode compiler which only allows 64k code and 64k of data. This will be fixed in a future revision. The GNU stuff is probably too large to be built on Coherent at this time. Consider this: I use Coherent on this USENET node, which is running Cnews and rn. It is as functional as the UNIX USENET node which I also administrate. Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.UUCP frog!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP