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If you’re interested in Coherent, you can get some background on it and even download the source code here: http://www.nesssoftware.com/home/mwc/ http://www.nes

If you’re interested in Coherent, you can get some background on it and even download the source code here: http://www.nesssoftware.com/home/mwc/ http://www.nesssoftware.com/home/mwc/ And here’s a 1998 thread from the Usenet group alt.folklore.computers where Dennis Ritchie (!) recounts his experience of being sent by AT&T to evaluate whether Coherent violated their Unix copyrights: https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!msg/alt.folklore.computers/_ZaYeY46eb4/5B41Uym6d4QJ https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!msg/alt.folklore.compute...

jcims 7y ago
Wow never thought I'd hear about this OS again. I still have the original manual and discs in the basement. My dad bought it and tinkered with it on a this huge Epson 386 back in the day...I got to the point of X without a window manager and gave up lol.
- jacquesm 7y ago
  Some fun facts to get your head wrapped around: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Williams_Company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Williams_Company That's Aaron's dad.
icedchai 7y ago
In the early 90's I used to run Coherent on a 386SX. It was my first exposure to a "Unix clones." It had one of the better Unix manuals for the time... very comprehensive. I later moved to Linux probably 1993-ish.
Mountain_Skies 7y ago
Almost bought it to operate a multiline BBS. The $99 price for a Unix like OS was astonishing. IIRC, my fellow SysOps and I ended up not going that route after contacting the company about the possibility of Coherent running PicoSpan and were told it likely wouldn't fit into the memory space. So we ended up using MajorBBS instead, which worked out fine.