On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 2:38 PM, Milo Velimirović <milov@cs.uwlax.edu> wrote:

On Jan 6, 2015, at 12:41 PM, random832@fastmail.us wrote:
> In the "distrib" directory there are four files exactly 1440 kb in size
> - maybe someone could try loading those into a VM/Emulator?

I had exactly that thought after I downloaded the tar ball this morning. Any suggestions for a VM config that would facilitate this would be welcome. Otherwise I’m going to stumble through virtual box and see what happens.

Those look an awful lot like the distribution disks for COHERENT 4.2.10. There's a writeup of how to get that installed and running under qemu here: http://thebeezspeaks.blogspot.in/2012/05/my-life-with-coherent-part-2.html

However, there have been some reports of stability issues with the emulated disk under qemu; VirtualBox seems to be the most consistently reliable (and fast!) alternative, but you have to run it under a 32-bit host OS. I ended up installing a 32-bit Linux under VMWare to run virtual box to run COHERENT (yes, it's awful). I haven't tried qemu lately to see if the stability problems have been addressed, though.

- Dan C.