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Article #2839Re: Coherent (check out ESSEX)
From: heiser
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 1990 17:29
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 1990 17:29
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In article <7626@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> lasky@iris.ucdavis.EDU (Ty Lasky) writes:
>
>people, and one person recommended that he look at ESSEX (sp?), Everex's
>version of Unix. Apparently, this operating system costs about
>$500-600, but is as good as SCO Unix, which costs MUCH more. Also,
>ESSEX apparently includes X windows, and other goodies (maybe NFS, I
>don't know). As you can tell, I haven't personally seen any information
>about this, but if I were looking at gettin Unix, I would definitely
>look into ESSEX, rather than Coherent. Like they say, you get what you
>pay for.
What you really mean here is ESIX. Esix is a SYSVR3 UNIX, unlike
Coherent which is really just a SYS7 Unix CLONE.
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