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- Path: sparky!uunet!pacsoft!mike
- From: mike@pacsoft.com (Mike Stefanik)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Subject: Re: prospective user:questions on sys...
- Message-ID: <1378@pacsoft.com>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 18:44:25 GMT
- References: <1992Sep2.171211.14675@scott.skidmore.edu>
- Organization: Pacific Software Group, Riverside, Ca.
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- In an article, jduncan@scott.skidmore.edu (john duncan) writes:
- >I am thinking of buying the coherent system. I need to know
- >some stuff on the system.
- >Does it support networking such as Novell, IEEE Ethernet and TCP/IP?
-
- No, but there have been some mumbling on the net regarding TCP/IP.
- I have gathered that MWS intends to have this in future releases.
-
- >Will it run almost all proggys made for BSD-x and SCO?
-
- The claim is that they will run i386 COFF executables, and they do.
- However, programs that use system-specific ioctl()'s, etc. will most
- likely choke and die (one of our packages does this very thing.)
-
- >Will it run X effectively?
-
- Pretty much the same position as your question about networking.
- X would probably not be a great boon to a majority of the Coherent
- users anyhow (yes, you get the operating system for $100 but then have
- to run out and purchase $3000 worth of hardware to get acceptable
- performance...)
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- Mike Stefanik mike@pacsoft.com ...!uunet!pacsoft!mike
- Pacific Software Group, Riverside, CA
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