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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!news.cs.utah.edu!news.cc.utah.edu!news.wasatch.com!wasatch.com!bobh From: bobh@wasatch.com (Bob Hauck) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Coherent answer to questions about Linux vs. FreeBSD Date: 17 Dec 1995 05:02:43 GMT Organization: Wasatch Communications Group Lines: 31 Sender: bobh@olympus.wasatch.com (Bob Hauck) Message-ID: <4b089j$usb@twin.wasatch.com> References: <4ajc07$sb7@unix2.glink.net.hk> <4aob8v$s21@park.uvsc.edu> <4aq2l9$5u9@oink.cs.utexas.edu> <4arhu6$f2f@felix.junction.net> <4as30h$jvh@fs7.ece.cmu.edu> <Pine.BSD.3.91.951215221823.12359A-100000@village.ios.com> <30D2FB7F.52C1@ix.netcom.com> Reply-To: bobh@wasatch.com NNTP-Posting-Host: olympus.wasatch.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.admin:36093 alt.os.linux:6465 alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions:5138 comp.os.linux.advocacy:30559 comp.os.linux.misc:75989 comp.os.linux.setup:32619 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:10605 In article <30D2FB7F.52C1@ix.netcom.com>, "Donald R. Congdon" <dcongdon@ix.netcom.com> writes: >Eric Vought wrote: >> >> > |> Coherent!? Now there's an OS! ;-) >> > >> > Nope, there *was* an OS. >> >> I really hate to continue this thread, but I'm fairly curious--- what >> *did* happen to Coherent? It seemed to suddenly disappear. Did MWC go >> bankrupt? > >MWC went out of business mid 1995. I was a former Coherent user and had >been for a number of years. Coherent went under because MWC could not >get certain necessary Unix features working fast enough. The main >feature was TCP/IP support. Their last release added X support but the >version of XFree86 which they ported was very limited and only supported >a few card types. Linux offered much more and was free. Many Coherent Interesting. When we started our little ISP here, we looked at Coherent. Obviously, the lack of TCP/IP took it out of the running. I had got some information from MWC about a year before where they mentioned that full TCP/IP was coming "real soon now", so I was hoping that it had been completed. I guess it took a little longer than they thought it would. Too bad about MWC. I had heard that Coherent was a decent product, and the price was certainly right. --- Bob Hauck Wasatch Communcations Group bobh@wasatch.com Data (24 hrs): 801-272-3792