2 Feb
2015
2 Feb
'15
3 p.m.
Ah the good old days! Bought v3 shortly after it was released, and ran it 24/7 on my 286.
I even had about a dozen local users that would dial in to send/receive e-mail and read
newsgroups via elm and trn.
Here's the UUCP map entry for it...
#N bedrock
#S Epson Equity II+ (80286); Coherent UNIX V3.2.0
#O Infinite Concepts
#C Alex D
#E bedrock!root
#T +1 416 525 4604
#P 195 Markland Street #2, Hamilton Ontario Canada L8P-2K7
#L 43 16 N / 73 55 W city
#R Digital Image Processing, Hardware/Software Development
#U blunile
#W bedrock!alex (Alex D); Sat Feb 8 08:31:06 EST 1992
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# Now part of .guild.org domain
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bedrock = bedrock.guild.org
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# BP=both poll, WP=we poll, TP=they poll
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bedrock blunile(EVENING) # WP 2400bps, downstream mail
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alex
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Schmidt" <david at
attglobal.net>
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Sent: Monday, February 2, 2015 1:45:47 PM
Subject: Re: Remember Coherent?
On 2/2/2015 3:08 PM, geneb wrote:
On Mon, 2 Feb 2015, Liam Proven wrote:
It was. And even I could afford it while in college - $99.95 from Mark
Williams Company. It was a revelation compared to DOS. Actual
multitasking on my '286. Actual tools like lex and yacc just like the
big systems at school (HP mumble-thousands and Sun 2s). I wasn't in the
Emacs camp, so the first thing I did was find a vi clone (elvis) to
compile and use. Lovely system it was.
- David
I could never afford it & figured I
wouldn't understand it if I did.
But it sounded really cool.
Well, as of last month, it's now FOSS.
http://www.nesssoftware.com/home/mwc/source.php
The manual was VERY good as I recall.