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From: grante@reddwarf.rosemount.com (Grant Edwards)
Subject: Re: Coherent answer to questions about Linux vs. FreeBSD
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Stephen Knilans (stephenk@netcom.com) wrote:
: grante@reddwarf.rosemount.com (Grant Edwards) writes:
: >: Too bad about MWC. I had heard that Coherent was a decent product,
: >: and the price was certainly right.
: >
: >It is a bit sad. It was a good product, with excellent documentation. I
: >suspect that Net/FreeBSD and Linux were the proximate cause of death -- MWC
: >just couldn't keep up. So far, the only casualty in the war against
: >Microsoft's hegemony seems to be the death of one of the good guys as a
: >result of friendly fire.
: The first version of coherent was VERY IN-coherent. It was 100% FALSE
: ADVERTISING! MANY were angry.
What first version? If you mean 1.0, then that was way before my time and
you could be correct. I started with 3.x on a 286 about five or six years
ago. I was quite impressed with it -- I wrote a pty device driver for the
286 version and ported screen (as well as RCS). Later I did a little worked
on the MGR port (hercules stuff) to 4.0. I thought Coherent was a damn fine
product, and I'm proud that I was able to contribute a little.
: The 386 version was a LOT better, but STILL didn't live up to promises.
Yes, the TCP/IP and X11 stuff was behind schedule, as I recall. I don't
remember if demand-paged virtual memory ever shipped either.
: Their tech support STUNK,
I always had great results with tech support. They even overnighted me a
beta copy of their bourne shell so I could test the fixes to some of the
bugs I reported. As far as I recall, all of the bugs I reported got fixed,
and they were quite nice about it.
: and they try to break into your system if you give them a chance.
Huh? I'd like to hear about that. I had uucp (dial-in and out) going, but
nobody ever tried to break in...
: Linux is MUCH better! LESS buggy, CHEAPER, more capable/compatible!
I agree that Linux quickly overtook Coherent (that's why I switched). MWC
just couldn't keep up with the *BSD or Linux development efforts, but MWC
was out there for 10+ years selling a good, inexpensive, _extreemly_ well
documented Unix clone, and I'm sorry to see they've gone out of business
while Microsoft has prospered.
--
Grant Edwards | Microsoft isn't the | Yow! Look! A ladder! Maybe
Rosemount Inc. | answer. Microsoft | it leads to heaven, or a
| is the question, and | sandwich!
grante@rosemount.com | the answer is no. |