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Re: The COHERENT Operating System

From kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups comp.misc, comp.windows.x
Subject Re: The COHERENT Operating System
Date 2024-03-25 22:54 +0000
Organization Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000)
Message-ID <utsvac$ec4$1@panix2.panix.com> (permalink)
References <slrnv014ei.dne.bencollver@svadhyaya.localdomain> <X-20240325075426@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de> <utsq5g$14tqr$2@dont-email.me>

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In article <utsq5g$14tqr$2@dont-email.me>, vallor  <vallor@cultnix.org> wrote:
>On 25 Mar 2024 06:54:48 GMT, ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote in
><X-20240325075426@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de>:
>
>> Ben Collver <bencollver@tilde.pink> wrote or quoted:
>>>COHERENT version 4 was released in May of 1992 for $100 (around $219
>>>in 2024). This version made COHERENT a fully 32 bit operating system
>>>and required at least an Intel 80386 CPU and 1MB of RAM. This version
>>>also brought official support for X Windows and MGR to COHERENT for
>>>the first time. This version was roughly compatible with UNIX SVR3.
>> 
>>   BTW: Probably "X Window" (the X Window System) is meant above,
>>   not "X Windows".
>
>BTDT:  it was known as "X Windows", not "X Window".
>
>But officially, it was (and still is) "X" or "The X Window System".
>
>(I've been seeing a lot of folks refer to it as "X Window"
>on Usenet lately -- you kids get off my lawn!)

I thought it was the windows system known as X?
--scott
-- 
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

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  Re: The COHERENT Operating System John McCue <jmccue@qball.jmcunx.com> - 2024-03-25 12:23 +0000
    Re: The COHERENT Operating System Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-03-28 00:52 +0000
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  Re: The COHERENT Operating System vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2024-03-25 21:26 +0000
    Re: The COHERENT Operating System kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2024-03-25 22:54 +0000
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