Re: Know about COHERENT program?

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From: John Lawitzke
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 1990 17:36

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From article <1990Dec13.221012.13052@cec1.wustl.edu>, by jma7759@cec2.wustl.edu (James Michael Anderson):
$ 
$     Ok, so I'm reading my latest copy of COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM
$ (December 1990) and on the page opposite of the table of contents is
$ an ad for "Everything You Ever Wanter In UNIX And Less. $99.95".  The
$ ad is selling the Mark Williams Company's Coherent clone of UNIX.  My
$ curiosity was raised by the low price; now can anyone tell me more?
$ The sales pitch claimed that the operating system only needed 10M and
$ that the program could execute in as little as 640K memory.  Does anyone
$ have any experience with this product?
$     I can't quite remember, but I seem to recal that the Mark Williams Co.
$ sold some other product a few years back (a Pascal compiler perhaps?).  Does
$ anybody have an impression of the company?

The UNIX column in Byte had a review of Coherent an issue or two ago.

Mark Williams Co. is mainly known for C compilers.

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