Remember Coherent?

[azd30]

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
#
bedrock	= bedrock.guild.org
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#	BP=both poll, WP=we poll, TP=they poll
#
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:
> >
> >> 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.
> 
> 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
> 
>