Remember Coherent?

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Tue Feb 3 17:41:30 CST 2015


> On Feb 3, 2015, at 12:59 PM, Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
> 
>> From: Liam Proven
> 
>> Well, as of last month, it's now FOSS.
> 
> Ah! If we hadn't lost him (sigh), DMR could now look at the code itself* to
> see if they ripped off Unix... :-)
> 
> Love this line from the intro to the documentation: "COHERENT is what UNIX
> used to be." Ain't dat de troof.
> 
> 	Noel
> 
> * https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.folklore.computers/-/5B41Uym6d4QJ

I’m mildly disappointed that the 8086 version wasn’t in this archive… I’m not
sure what the lift would be to recreate it. I’m also not sure it would be worth it
for my DEC Rainbow which just has serial port connectivity to the world…

Warner



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