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- From: sjsobol@wariat.org (Steven J. Sobol)
- Subject: Re: Programs for Coherent
- Message-ID: <1993Jan13.025407.13856@wariat.org>
- Organization: APK Public Access
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- References: <1993Jan11.201605.11637@hsr.no>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 02:54:07 GMT
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- Laban Seigemann (vagle@hsr.no) wrote:
- : I have considered changing my PC's dos to UNIX.
- : This Coherent looks good, but is there a lot of programs for it ?
- : Especially some desk-top-publishing, CAD, wordprocessors and
- : communication programs.
-
- Comm programs, yes. Word processors.. maybe one or two. Not CAD and DTP
- yet as graphics support for Coherent still is under construction.
-
- : How is it to run msdos programs in coherent, is it multitasked ?
- : (maybe lame question)
-
- Well, Coherent is a multitasking OS but cannot run DOS in a process.
- The extent of DOS compatibility is that you can keep both operating systems
- on the hard drive, and Coherent *will* read and write files to DOS partitions
- or floppy disks.
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