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The first picture I clicked into (http://www.sunhelp.org/unixworld/coherent.jpg http://www.sunhelp.org/unixworld/coherent.jpg) is an ad for Coherent Unix, which
by peterevans 13y ago
The first picture I clicked into (http://www.sunhelp.org/unixworld/coherent.jpg http://www.sunhelp.org/unixworld/coherent.jpg) is an ad for Coherent Unix, which was a commercial Unix clone sold in the '80s and '90s, by Mark Williams Company in Northbrook, IL.
I look them up to see what they're up to and, of course, they are no longer in operation. Interestingly enough, it was owned by a man named Robert Swartz, who just happened to be the father of one Aaron Swartz. What coincidence.
(Wikipedia page here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Williams_Company http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Williams_Company)
- mrbill 13y agoI've got images of Coherent install media and a PDF of the (really awesome) manual. It was a great "UNIX" for people who couldn't afford a real AT&T distribution, before Linux came on the scene.
- grobertson 13y agoWow, I never knew that, small world. I have very fond memories of Coherent. I split the license cost (a whopping $99 bucks) with a buddy, both of us making near-minimum wage as bench techs for a used computer shop in Atlanta (which, much to my shock is still in business today). A few months later I scraped together enough money to pick up a used Sun 3/60 running Sun OS (and shortly after that, moved to an early version of Slackware), but Coherent will always be my first Unix.