umfonta6@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Robert Fontaine) (08/31/90)
Hi all,
I did a quick search of the relevant newsgroups
and I could'nt find any information on Coherent's
"*n*x" clone.
Does anyone have an opinion ? :)
I'm definitely considering buying it sight unseen
but I'd appreciate some input.
Best probably, to e-mail me and if there is sufficient
interest interest I'll post a summary in
comp.newprod
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------------------------------------------------------------------------------cb@tamarack12.timbuk (Chris Brewster) (02/09/91)
If this is an FAQ, please direct me to the answer. I'm a new owner of a 386 and am at least intrigued by the ads for Mark Williams's Coherent. I'm told it's based on an early version of Unix, has a 64K limit on various things, and is slated to come out with a less limited version before long. Is anyone using it? Is it nice? Is there sufficient user interest to spur third-party software developement? The price keeps me interested. Thanks-- Christopher Brewster Cray Research Inc. 612: 683-5759 cb@timbuk.cray.com
davisp@skybridge.SCL.CWRU.Edu (Palmer Davis) (02/09/91)
In article <CB.91Feb8151806@tamarack12.timbuk> cb@tamarack12.timbuk (Chris Brewster) writes: > >I'm a new owner of a 386 and >am at least intrigued by the ads for Mark Williams's Coherent. I'm told it's >based on an early version of Unix, has a 64K limit on various things, and is >slated to come out with a less limited version before long. Is anyone using >it? Is it nice? Is there sufficient user interest to spur third-party >software developement? The price keeps me interested. Thanks-- > The people to ask are over in comp.os.misc; there's a "Coherent Digest" that gets posted there every week or so, and they're pushing for a comp.os.coherent newsgroup. I would think that it would be similar to Minix in its capabilities but more stable and minus the sources. Many of the more popular utilities and applications written for 4.3 won't work in it (specifically, most of the GNU stuff). I suppose it really depends on what you intend to do with it... -- PTD -- -- Palmer T. Davis | davisp@scl.cwru.edu -OR- ptd2@po.cwru.edu Case Western Reserve University | {att,sun,decvax,uunet}!cwjcc!skybridge!davisp --------------------------------+---------------------+------------------------ Wake up and smell the cat food in your bank account. | Life is short.