On: Coherent: The affordable Unix-like PC OS from over a decade before Linux 0.01

[icedchai]

I ran Coherent 4.x on a 386sx before I got into Linux. This was probably 1992 or 93.

[deviantbit → icedchai]

You were fortunate to have one of the few computers it would actually run on.

[icedchai → deviantbit]

I didn't think its hardware requirements were that exotic? This was a fairly generic PC clone laptop. I knew another guy who ran 3.x on a 286.

[deviantbit → icedchai]

> This was a fairly generic PC clone laptop.

What year?

[icedchai → deviantbit]

It would've been either late 1992 or early 1993. It was a rather low end 386SX/20 laptop.

[nils-m-holm → deviantbit]

I ran Coherent on quite a few PC clone computers, most of them 286 with a WD1006 MFM controller and a Seagate ST-225 or Mitsubishi MR535 hard disk. Later I had it on a variety of cheap 386 boxes with IDE interfaces and on one machine with an Adaptec 1542 SCSI adapter. It never caused any issues on any of them. It was in the late 1980's to early 90's. If it was luck, I must have had a lot of it back then!