[HN Gopher] Coherent: The affordable Unix-like PC OS from over a...
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       Coherent: The affordable Unix-like PC OS from over a decade before
       Linux 0.01
        
       Author : lproven
       Score  : 23 points
       Date   : 2023-12-10 20:44 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | Tsiklon wrote:
       | I had no idea there was a unix-like available at relatively
       | reasonable cost before Linux. How is the c compiler, is there any
       | way to compile some modern software for this?
        
         | macintux wrote:
         | There was also Minix. I used to have a binder with the source
         | code, eons ago.
         | 
         | I don't know about the current state of Coherent support, but
         | the Wikipedia page has some resource links.
         | 
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coherent_%28operating_system%2...
        
         | johndoe0815 wrote:
         | Coherent was published by Mark-Williams, who also had their own
         | C compiler (MWC), which was also available for CP/M86 and the
         | Atari ST. It's a K&R compiler, so expect some trouble with
         | compiling modern code (unprotoize might help a bit here).
         | 
         | The final releases of Coherent (4.2 is the last one IIRC) also
         | fully supported the iBCS COFF binary standard, so binaries
         | compiled for e.g. SCO Unix might work.
         | 
         | You could also try to build an old gcc version with the
         | provided K&R compiler:
         | https://www.autometer.de/unix4fun/coherent/coh_prog.html
        
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