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Did anyone else dabble with: Coherent (UNIX-like OS) in the early 90's?
It turns out it was open sourced in 2015, I'm certainly going to be exploring this again, here's the download link for anyone that's interested (4x Floppy Images):
https://github.com/gspu/Coherent

GitHub - gspu/Coherent: Coherent OS

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silverwizard
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@Gammitin 💾 my dad wrote the kernel for that! It's super cool messing around with code my dad wrote!
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Gammitin (Ben) 💾
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@silverwizard oh wow, that's cool. Awesome dad skills! 👍👍👍
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silverwizard
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@Gammitin 💾 a bunch of them were scooped up from the University of Waterloo to write an OS, I mostly have stories of 2am pizza runs in Chicago as their primary method of.writing code

I think the only reason I like deep dish pizza is that OS

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silverwizard
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@Gammitin 💾 that and a story about sitting in the library trying to figure out how this worked: https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/julian-gregorian-switch.html

Apparently writing cal is way harder when you need to use books!

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christian mock
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@gnutelephony I would guess NE2000 as that was the "standard" network card back then?
christian mock
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Yes, and I still have the manual (and probably the floppies) around. The manual was very good and helped me build the basics of my Unix knowledge...
silverwizard
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@christian mock @Gammitin 💾 that's freaking cool!
I'd love to see those floppies if you have them! I've literally never seen live ones
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christian mock
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@silverwizard Here is what I could find at the moment; there was also a set of hand-labeled 4.0.1 3 1/2" disks, and since I have the 4.0 manual I think I also must have the original floppies, but where under all that dust? I also seem to remember that I had something in 5.25"...
a set of 4 3.5" floppies labelled "Coherent version 3.2.0"
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Monospace Mentor
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Oh my goodness, I want to go back in time and tell my past self to not bother with OS/2, and buy COHERENT instead. The section of the copyright page that describes how the manual was published is pure awesomeness.
Excerpt from the COHERENT manual describing how it was written and typeset on the OS itself using troff, xfig, and a HP Laserjet with PostScript expansion.
Your friendly 'net denizen
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No, but I remember seeing the ads as a teen and pondering the possibility of scraping together enough money to get it.
Todd Campbell
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I did. In fact, I bought the OS before I even had a computer to run it on. I worked with UNIX in my job at the time and was dying for a system to "play” with at home. I was constantly reading the manual until I was able to get a 286 to run it on, which was the other awesome thing about it, that it ran on 286 hardware.
Randall Howard 🇨🇦✅
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I was part of a group of University of Waterloo Math/Computer Science grads who wrote Coherent. Earlier, I helped bring the first UNIX (Version 5 v System 5) to UofW in 1973 - likely the first UNIX install in Canada. Ken Thompson at Bell Labs Murray Hill wrote the mag tape that was used for transport.

I wrote the 'kernel' and a lot of commands and libraries. Dave Conroy, now senior at Apple wrote the C compiler after having written the first non-Bell compiler distro by DECUS.

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