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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!chi-news.cic.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netnews From: "Donald R. Congdon" <dcongdon@ix.netcom.com> 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: Sat, 16 Dec 1995 11:01:51 -0600 Organization: Congdon ComputerTECH Services Lines: 22 Message-ID: <30D2FB7F.52C1@ix.netcom.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> NNTP-Posting-Host: ara-il1-09.ix.netcom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-NETCOM-Date: Sat Dec 16 9:04:09 AM PST 1995 X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b3 (Win95; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.admin:36169 alt.os.linux:6512 alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions:5163 comp.os.linux.advocacy:30748 comp.os.linux.misc:76279 comp.os.linux.setup:32848 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:10732 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 users (like me) switched to Linux or FreeBSD. What decided me was the bad X support (didn't support my ATI card very well) and lack of TCP/IP networking features. There is still a Coherent newsgroup going and some user-level support and there IS a rumor that another company will be acquiring the rights to Coherent but it is basically no longer a major force in the low-end Unix world.