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- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Subject: Re: Revivifying Coherent (was Re: Are we dead??)
- Summary: My thoughts on Coh 4.x
- Keywords: project C programming bbs coherent 386bsd
- Message-ID: <84042@ut-emx.uucp>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 14:06:36 GMT
- References: <9211152765@phent.UUCP>
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- Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
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- I'm sorry to say that, with the purchase of my new hard drive (still
- crossing my fingers), I'm going to switch to 386bsd (or Linux if that
- doesn't pan out).
- As an amateur in the Unix world, with onnly a unzip410 port to show for
- my Coherent learning tour, (and a trivial port at that), I've still got
- alot to learn. But I hope I can help on the BBS project.
- I really like Coherent, but I'm afraid our philosophies didn't quite match.
- I -thought- I wanted a small Unix system (120MB seemed like TONS for an OS)
- but I realized I'd much rather have command-compatiblity with most other
- Unixes. That's a hairy statement, since the "standards" for commands seem
- to be somewhat fuzzy, but I simply feel that another OS would be more
- likely to compile on the first run due to the peculiarities of Coherent's
- system call naming and command-line-argument parsing. I just want to
- "make foo" and have it run. I'd rather spend my time writing new programs
- than porting old ones.
- I felt like I was replacing EVERY tool that came with Coherent, and the
- size was creeping up to the 120MB barrier; so I figured why not get an OS
- that already has this stuff (even if it is 200MB big!)
- I guess I'm lucky I have the option of getting a big hard drive to hold
- Ms-win, Ms-dos, and some Unix on it, but if I had to stay with a 120MB limit
- on Unix, I'd rather have Coherent than anything else.
- A word to the wise: 200MB is considered minimal for 386bsd.
-
- My 2 cents to the coherent developer(s):
- Don't underestimate the FREE programming man-hours you can get from your
- followers! Spend your time on the device driver kit, so we can work on
- something! You might even lower the price for us :-)
-
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