Coherent

[Mark Tovey]

>Has anybody had any experience with it.  I am think of buying it
>(at $99 its even cheaper than ESIX!!).
>Any comments comments will be welcome.

I have Coherent on my system but I am afraid I won't be of much help as 
this is my first experience with UNIX and haven't much chance to utilize
it yet. From what I have gathered from other people who have it, it is a 
full blown UNIX system and performs quite well. It is a multiuser, 
multitasking system and comes complete with such utilites as yacc, lex, 
uucp, etc. My feeling is that for $99 I couldn't go wrong.
	                                Mark


>Has anyone received their copy of "Coherent" "unix" yet?  They claim they
>just started shipping (even though I ordered it about 1.5 months ago).  

I ordered mine in June and received it a couple of weeks ago. It took 
several phone calls to jog their memories and at one point they even 
lost the original order. At this point they made a special effort to 
get a copy to me. Part of the problem appears to be that they did not 
expect to get as great a response to it as they got. Also, they 
recently moved into a new building. As you can imagine, this would 
destroy any resemblance to order for a while. My suggestion is to call 
every couple of weeks or so to keep them thinking about it.