Bill Dyer's memories of the Coherent Unix clone.
At $99.95, in the early 1990s it was the first Unix I could afford and run on my laptop. It taught me a lot. It was a product from an era in which you could pay a one-time fee to buy and own good, packaged software that delivered real value and came with excellent printed documentation.
https://itsfoss.com/coherent-operating-system
#unix #retrocomputing
Paolo Amoroso
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