Remember Coherent?

[Jerry Kemp]

Hello Dave,

Are you aware that the "excellent" Coherent manual is available online in 
electronic format?

Its been posted here a couple of times since I have subscribed, but if you don't 
have it, I can repost it.

Jerry


On 02/ 3/15 07:12 PM, Dave wrote:
> 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:
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>
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>   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.
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> http://www.nesssoftware.com/home/mwc/source.php
>