[HN Gopher] Coherent: The affordable Unix-like PC OS from over a... ___________________________________________________________________ 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) (HTM) web link (github.com) (TXT) w3m dump (github.com) | 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 ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-12-10 23:00 UTC)