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- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Subject: Re: Questions about Coherent.
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.195705.512@acme.gen.nz>
- From: kilroy@acme.gen.nz (earthbound misfit, I)
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 19:57:05 GMT
- Reply-To: kilroy@acme.gen.nz (earthbound misfit, I)
- References: <1992Jul23.161913.12482@phillip.edu.au>
- Organization: ACME BBS - Public Access Usenet, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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- t9114145@phillip.edu.au writes:
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- > 1. Does it come with a C compiler?
- > I really want a UNIX at home because I want to be able to work on
- > C assignments at home, and I want ANSI C, not some Borland or Microsoft
- > mutation.
-
- It comes with a C compiler, but it's the K&R mutation of C, not ANSI (:-)).
- Coherent 4.0 has just been released, which is a true 32-bit version of the OS
- and can run GCC which is ANSI.
-
- > 2. Can it be networked? i.e. can I pick up and read (then post) usenet
- > with Coherent?
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- Via UUCP, yes, providing you can get a UUCP newsfeed. Anything flasher (TCP/IP
- and NFS) isn't available for Coherent yet.
-
- > 3. If in the future I have the hardware for X-windows, will Coherent
- > do it?
-
- In the future :-). It's not capable of it yet, but people are working on it.
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- - k
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- Craig Harding kilroy@acme.gen.nz ACME BBS +64 63 3551342
- "Jub'f Xvob?"
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