wanted: UNIX or clone

[Rick Kelly]

In article <3798 at sixhub.UUCP> davidsen at sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>In article <1991Apr18.211830.41902 at eagle.wesleyan.edu> flinton at eagle.wesleyan.edu writes:
>
>| Should I infer that Coherent might be a good choice for my ALR 486, given
>| that it sports but 2 Meg of RAM and only 30 Meg on its HD (well, 40 Meg if
>| I scrap my current 10 Meg DOS 4.01 partition) ?
>
>  As long as you realize that it's not UNIX you are fine. I believe it
>will run all V7 stuff, and some SysIII stuff. Maybe with BSD
>enhancements. If you want to hack around and have fun it's fine, will
>run news, etc.

It does have some SYSV stuff in it.  Shared memory, semaphores, and
message passing.  And some SYSV compatible library routines.

>  Having run Xenix on a 286 for three years at work, I can assure you
>that with proper tuning it is not the pig someone implied. The response
>can be quite good, but the segmented archetecture is a pain. Not that
>Coherent makes it any easier, it just restricts you to small model (this
>may no longer be true).

There is supposed to be a large model kernel in the works.  There is also
a 386 VM kernel in the works.

Rick Kelly	rmk at rmkhome.UUCP	frog!rmkhome!rmk	rmk at frog.UUCP