vancleef@iastate.edu (Van Cleef Henry H) (04/04/91)
I have seen the ads for Mark Williams Coherent for $99 and been aaked by people who knew that I was playing with Minix as a teaching tool what are the differences. I already see that someone is building TCP/IP support, so won't ask about that. Does it have any BSD-type extensions like sockets? What utilities like kermit and vi does it come with. Man pages? Source code for any or all parts of the system? Anybody using it as a teaching tool, and how does it stand up. How is documentation. What is the minimum system it can run on. (I am running Minix on a 2 x 720K 640K V30 laptop with room to spare). Is there a Macintosh version? One question I won't ask is "will is support X11R4?" Are there any repository sites for goodies and toys to go with Coherent? Or is all this brand new? I feel inclined to spend $99 for an evaluation copy. --
gt3741b@prism.gatech.EDU (Kikai heno hanashite) (04/05/91)
In article <1991Apr4.044804.6687@news.iastate.edu> vancleef@iastate.edu (Van Cleef Henry H) writes: >I already see that someone is building TCP/IP support, so won't ask >about that. Does it have any BSD-type extensions like sockets? What >utilities like kermit and vi does it come with. Man pages? Source code >for any or all parts of the system? Well, it's supposed to be SV compatable (from what I remember), so I doubt it does sockets, but I could be wrong. It has an editor called Elvis that is a VI clone.. dunno about kermit. > >One question I won't ask is "will is support X11R4?" > >Are there any repository sites for goodies and toys to go with Coherent? >Or is all this brand new? I feel inclined to spend $99 for an >evaluation copy. > When I first saw the Coherent ad, I called the company. I asked them what kind of things the little package can do. The guy on the other end said "It's fully source code compatable" (don't remember to which version).. so, if you can find source for X11R4 for the version that it is source compatable to, you can run X11R4. Assuming I remembered right, and it's SV compatable, there ought to be LOTS of repositories of source code out there (all over the place as a matter of fact..) Hope that helps.. John -- Discussing whether or not machines can think | John E. Rudd jr. is about as interesting as discussing whether | gt3741b@prism.gatech.edu or not submarines can swim. --Djkstra | (ex- kzin@ucscb.ucsc.edu) | Speaker to Machines #include<std.disclaim> Send all comments, flames, and complaints to /dev/null.
gt1342a@prism.gatech.EDU (gt1342a ) (04/05/91)
COHERENT in its current form will NOT support X11R4. Keep in mind that COHERENT is in the small memory module, all executables must be <64K. It is compatible with Research UNIX V7. This is not AT&T Sys V. It is UNIX Version 7. ... Chuck LeDuc gt1342a@prism.gatech.edu
dls@genco.bungi.com (Dave L. Smith) (04/06/91)
>When I first saw the Coherent ad, I called the company. I asked them what >kind of things the little package can do. The guy on the other end said >"It's fully source code compatable" (don't remember to which version).. >so, if you can find source for X11R4 for the version that it is source >compatable to, you can run X11R4. Assuming I remembered right, and it's >SV compatable, there ought to be LOTS of repositories of source code out >there (all over the place as a matter of fact..) > Doesn't Coherent have a 64K limitation? I'd like to see X11R4 work with 64K!!! Dave Smith