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
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
Coherent OS. Contribute to gspu/Coherent development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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@Gammitin πΎ 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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@Gammitin πΎ 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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•https://www.autometer.de/unix4fun/coherent/ftp/vms/
Index of /unix4fun/coherent/ftp/vms
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I'd love to see those floppies if you have them! I've literally never seen live ones
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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.