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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?

I bought, tried, and returned Coherent.  Problems were:

    -	Wouldn't run with my ESDI disk controller (won't work with
	SCSI controllers, either).
    -	Not compatible with my AMI BIOS (though this may be fixed
	now.)
    -	Limited to SMALL programming model!!!

I found the last problem the most unacceptable.  I was interested in
learning more about Unix, but you can't even get a decent editor to
compile in that environment!

I definately don't recommend it.  Don't just take my word for it, ask
the same question in comp.os.minix and see what happens!


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