Info Requested on Low Cost Unix Alternatives

Brendan Kehoe brendan at cs.widener.edu
Sat Mar 2 08:03:19 AEST 1991


In <26178 at adm.brl.mil>, S12187TJ%SEMASSU.BITNET at yalevm.ycc.yale.edu writes:
>What exactly is missing from the $100 Unix clone Coherent?

 BSD. It's System V with some PD stuff thrown in and a LOT of bugs.
Don't depend upon this for a full-fledged system (e.g. more things
core dumped in my attempt to build Elm on it than anything I've ever
seen).

 It's cool as an experiment, but not to rely upon. Yet.

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     Brendan Kehoe - Widener Sun Network Manager - brendan at cs.widener.edu
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