{"id":28589,"date":"2020-08-20T03:59:47","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T07:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=79f85a46f666d7d84c7841bb97017908"},"modified":"2020-08-20T03:59:47","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T07:59:47","slug":"coherent-unix-variant-for-dos-compatible-pcs-1994-pdf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=28589","title":{"rendered":"Coherent: Unix variant for DOS compatible PCs (1994) [pdf]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autometer.de\/unix4fun\/coherent\/ftp\/manuals\/COHERENT-4.2.pdf\">Hacker News<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: On one hand, Coherent was one of a spate of interchangeably doomed commercial UNIXes of its era, and not a particularly early one. \r\nOn the other hand, there's a bunch that's interesting about it.  \r\nThey had excellent, exaustive, user-respecting documentation of a kind that just doesn't exist anymore.\r\nThe fact that there were a bunch of serious operating systems in the late 80s and early 90s, and essentially none since tells us something (horrible) about the hockey-stick graph on platform complexity.\r\nIt's fascinating that there were a ton of UNIX-likes and no other platform has had that kind of profusion. Did the UNIX folks really hit that good a local maxima? Can we characterize that?<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=24220948\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Comments<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comments<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=28589\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}