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byron@OCF.BERKELEY.EDU (Byron C. Go) writes:

>In article <28293@nigel.ee.udel.edu> boutell@freezer.it.udel.edu (Tom Boutell) writes:
>>- I'm interested in getting Coherent. For $99, it looks like a dream
>>come true- a hacker's Unix, comfortable in one meg on a machine like
>>mine, with UUCP and an ANSI C compiler standard. But is it gonna be
>>willing to install on my XT hard drive/ controller? I'm guessing it
>>won't be happy.

>I too am interested in getting Coherent.  Does anyone have information
>that would be of help to me?

>Thanks in advance.

>regards,

>     byron  (=

Check the newsgroup comp.os.minix, which is devoted to discussion/code/flames
about minix, a UNIX workalike for various machines.  They've had heated 
discussion about Coherent recently and surely someone would be able to 
tell you more about it than I could.  A lot of people on that group
were upset that the Coherent cc wouldn't handle all of the PC memory
models, as well as the fact that Coherent sells -- WITHOUT source -- something
similar to UNIX v7, while Minix offers source and a v7 clone for about
$10 less.  I believe you can get Minix free from some FTP sites, tho'
I don't know about the legality of it.