Coherent Unix
Paul Gillingwater
paul at actrix.gen.nz
Thu Dec 27 17:42:26 AEST 1990
In article <2776c302-23comp.unix.msdos at vpnet.chi.il.us> akcs.moodyblu at vpnet.chi.il.us (Matt Weisberg) writes:
> I am looking for some information on Coherent UNIX. ...
I bought Coherent for US$99. Not a bad buy, all things considered.
> I have an 80386 with 672MB of hard drive space.
This is where I hit a problem. Coherent won't run with a SCSI disk
controller in the current release (3.0), and I found problems when
trying to install on my DOS system. Coherent can use one of the 4
entries from a standard DOS partition table, but consistently
core-dumped when I tried to /etc/mkfs larger than 100 Mb. By
reducing this to 60 Mb, it was able to create a usable file system,
but still has problems with fsck. So it's still pretty flakey in
some areas.
> tell me if this is a good buy? $99.95 seems quite unbelievable. I am also
For the price, you get quite a nice UNIX-like feel, with a non-ANSI
C compiler and Micro-emacs-like editor. Source code is provided for
lots of stuff (including the editor). I like Coherent because it is
a great way for people to learn about UNIX -- it's multi-user,
although I haven't tried to break its memory management yet! It
runs on both 286 and 386 systems. It feels a bit clunky, but also
is very lean -- fast and compact. The latter can be a problem if
you are porting bloated software (like rn).
> considering running a UNIX board, so I would be looking for UNIX BBS
I am planning to port Sandy's XBBS to Coherent -- this would make a
nice combination. Anyone else interested in this?
--
Paul Gillingwater, paul at actrix.gen.nz
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