From: Rick Miller, Linux Device Registrar (rick@ee.uwm.edu)
Date: 01/07/93


From: rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller, Linux Device Registrar)
Subject: Re: Linux v. Coherent: Comments
Date: 7 Jan 1993 13:43:14 GMT

darcys@fraser.sfu.ca (Darcy Smith) writes:
>acook@athena.mit.edu (Andrew R Cook) writes:
>>Last time I checked, there was one *major* disadvantage to Coherent:
>>No graphics support ! Makes running X kind'a difficult ?
>>
>It's on it's way - really it is!
>

Y'know, I've been thinking about this... Folks are saying that the next
release of Coherent will have *loads* of stuff it doesn't have yet:

        1.) Graphics support
        2.) The GNU GCC compiler
        3.) TCP/IP Networking
        4.) Sockets
        5.) X Windows

That's a pretty big leap when you compare it to the improvements made from
the last version to the present one. Where do you suppose the MWC is going
to *get* all that code from? Are they dealing with Satan? or *worse*...

Filching code from Linux and/or 386BSD to call it your own is a big no-no.

Rick Miller <rick@ee.uwm.edu> | <rick@discus.mil.wi.us> Ricxjo Muelisto
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