dtinker@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (David Tinker) (04/08/91)
I run Coherent 3.10 on a 286-clone with 2megs extended memory. I had
recently purchased a new hard disk and had my old 30 meg HD, so I decided
to devote it to Coherent. So now my machine has both a Coherent- and
DOS-side (Turn to the DOS-side, Luke - I am your father). So far I have
only filled 10 meg, with many of the postings to mwcbbs installed, in
addition to online man pages and dictionary.
I used to have MINIX up on a two-floppy XT, and loved it in spite of the
obvious limitations of hardware, but my personal feeling is that Coherent
is superior to MINIX - more robust, doesn't crash all the time, no need to
spend days installing basic utilities from source, and most of all, no need
to do a complete kernel re-make every 3 months to keep up with the updates
(:-). It's been a joy to port some of my beloved UN*X utilities from MINIX
and comp.sources.misc. that I had hacked and munged to work under DOS.
Besides playing around, I'm doing some serious development of a large DOS
app, and it turns out to be convenient to develop modules in Coherent, then
transfer to DOS and compile under Borland C 2.0 (Borland's MAKE is reasonably
UNIX compatible). One very good reason for doing this is the availability
of a real RCS in Coherent. I maintain the master copies of source and docu-
mentation on the Coherent side.
My site is on the UUCP maps for mail only - I'm posting to news from my
university account - and I'm appending my sig from my home site ("blunile")
for any who might wish to enquire further. Do *NOT* mail to the address in
the header, please send E-mail to dtinker@blunile.UUCP.
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