Remember Coherent?

I remember it well. I bought version 3 around 1989 and ran in on my 286. It was pretty amazing running something so much like Unix on my tiny home computer. In order to "civilize" it a bit, I ported an Emacs-like editor called "elle", sz, rz, zip, unzip, and adventure. I also ported Ken Almquists 'ash', which I called 'dash', adding command history and programmable command line editor (with vi and emacs modes). I was amazed at what that little system could do, and at how complete an environment those guys at Mark Willarms put together from scratch. I used it until December 1991 (guess why. . .) I had the manual for many years afterward, even though I never really used it. It was such a great well written reference, even without Coherent, it was just fun to keep. I wish I still had it. . . Dave On Monday, February 2, 2015 1:06 PM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote: 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