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. :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: David O. Tinker EMAIL: dtinker@blunile.UUCP Blue Nile Software {uunet|utai}!lsuc!aimed!blunile!dtinker Markham, Ont. Canada VOICE: (416) 887-5631 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: -- -- ! David O. Tinker / Department of Biochemistry / University of Toronto / ! ! TORONTO, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A8 / Voice: (416) 978-3636 / ! ! UUCP: dtinker@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca / BITNET: dtinker@vm.utcs.utoronto.ca ! -----------------------------------------------------------------------------