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From: bobh@wasatch.com (Bob Hauck)
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Subject: Re: Coherent answer to questions about Linux vs. FreeBSD
Date: 17 Dec 1995 05:02:43 GMT
Organization: Wasatch Communications Group
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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.

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 Bob Hauck                              Wasatch Communcations Group
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