> > > Didn't Mark Williams' Coherent run on 286 boxes, or was it
> >> strictly 386 and above? I messed with it a little 11-12 years ago
> >> and had it running on a generic 386SX-16 box with 4meg of RAM and a
> >> 40meg HD.
> >
> >Depends upon the version. There was a version for 8086 before the
> >286 version.
>
> Now that you mention it, you're right. That was the reason I
> picked it up, because of it's light hardware requirements for a
> Unix-type OS. It was also reasonably priced. I saw a positive
> review of it in one of the big IBM-PC magazines and ordered it. I
> wouldn't mind finding a complete Coherent package again...I have no
> idea whatever happened to the one I had.
Yes, I checked it. Coherent run on 286 with the usual 64K code and 64K
data limitation, but the best: You can download a full binary
distributions and the kernel sources from : ftp.mayn.de/pub/coherent
I will now try to get it running on my 286 ...
mario
Received on Thu Mar 08 2001 - 11:17:56 GMT
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