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The 386SX could do everything the 386DX did, just slower. My first Linux box was a 386SX machine. Before Linux, I ran Coherent on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/w
by icedchai 3y ago
The 386SX could do everything the 386DX did, just slower. My first Linux box was a 386SX machine. Before Linux, I ran Coherent on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coherent_(operating_system) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coherent_(operating_system)
- ianmcgowan 3y agoThere are dozens of us! Dozens! I paid $99 for Coherent because Linux didn't support the fancy RLL hard drive in my work computer. Eventually Linux caught up (or I got a new computer) and Slackware replaced Coherent (for little things like X11, better networking etc.). Those were the days :)
- jacquesm 3y agoAnother Coherent fan here. That was an awesome system. And for once: awesome documentation. The Coherent book long outlived the Coherent system for me.
- icedchai 3y agoI totally agree! I still remember the cover of that book, with the picture of the shell on it. I learned most of the "POSIX" APIs from it before I moved to Linux.
- lakkal 3y agoI still have all my Coherent manuals and disks. I still referenced the manual for years after I moved on to Linux.
- weinzierl 3y agoCoherent sounds really cool, I've never heard of it before. I wish I had known about it back in the day. I had a 386DX, 25 MHz with 4MB and ran Slackware 3.0 with kernel 1.2.13 on it. It worked pretty nicely for me, but I have to say that I spent most of my time on the console. X11 did run but it was too slow to be fun.
- icedchai 3y agoCoherent was quite impressive for the early 90's! It had some limitations though, the major one being no networking built in. I remember using a 3rd party app (KA9Q, I think?) to give me "user level" networking so I could connect to another system over SLIP. I had an early home network built out of serial cables. Once Linux stabilized, the writing was on the wall...