mvadh@cbnews.att.com (andrew.d.hay) (10/26/90)
In article <1990Oct25.222951.926@mentor.com>, sboyle@mentor.com (Sean Boyle x1542) writes: > I have been using it for some months now. I wanted an alternative to > messy dos and coherent was cheap. I have been able to compile quite a > few unix utilities and things on it successfully with minor tweaking. > > It is something like an early (V6 or V7) sort of UNIX. The complaints > I have are: [] > Besides all that, It is MUCH better to me than MSDOS. pardon me if the answer is obvious, but i've forgotten: will coherent run dos executables? -- Andrew Hay +------------------------------------------------------+ Ragged Individualist | You just have _N_O idea! It's the difference | AT&T-BL Ward Hill MA | between _S_H_O_O_T_I_N_G a bullet and _T_H_R_O_W_I_N_G it! | a.d.hay@att.com +------------------------------------------------------+
tvf@cci632.UUCP (Tom Frauenhofer) (10/30/90)
In article <1829@overlf.UUCP> emanuele@overlf.UUCP (Mark A. Emanuele) writes: >I have tried this *nix once and stopped after I was able to do a ><cntl><alt><del> while in multi user mode and reboot the machine. >This is unacceptible to me. >When I called up Mark Williams Co. they were not even aware that this happened! >The Tech support guy tried it on his machine, and said "...well I'll be damned" >I cannot believe that this kind of bug was not found during testing, so I must >assume that it is a "feature ?". I could do this under Microport V/AT (in fact, the friendly folks at Microport actually wrote in their documentation that that was the preferred way to do a shutdown). Minix also allows me to do that, but that's a hacker OS so it doesn't count. I can't speak for any of the 386 Unicies (plural for Unix? Who knows), but I wouldn't be surprised if you could. Like anything it has its pluses and minuses, I wouldn't fault them for that. I find prying off one of the keytops is usually (not always) a better deterrant to the 3-fingered salute, anyway... -- Thomas V. Frauenhofer, WA2YYW, tvf@cci.com | Little cockroach on the wall, {uupsi,ccicpg}!cci632!tvf@uunet.uu.net | Don't you have no friends at all? tvf@frau.UUCP | Doesn't anybody love you? tvf1477@ma.cs.rit.edu | God will love you! (SQUISH)