10 Mar
2017
10 Mar
'17
12:10 p.m.
On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 1:30 PM, Dan Cross <crossd(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I don't have a running system right now but Coherent 3.2 used V2
config files (L.sys, L-dev, etc.) according to my 1991 manual. A
Coherent manual with a 1993 copyright confirms that later versions
used Taylor UUCP.
My 80286 with Coherent 3.2.1A (last of the 3's and the last to support
the '286) and its UUCP was how I connected to my first ISP. ($5/month
for mail and news. Who needs SLIP!)
Jim
Any others
that folks know about and how well were they used? Did things
like Coherent have a UUCP? Linux and FreeBSD were able to use to Taylor
UUCP because it became available by then. Whitesmith's Idris lacked
anything like UUCP IIRC (but was based on V6). Same with Thoth originally
at Waterloo, but by the time they shipped it as the QNX product it was V7
compliant but I do not remember a UUCP being included in it. Minux lacked
a UUCP as I recall, but I'm hazy on that has Andy's crew wrote a lot of the
user space. Coherent was a "full" V7 clone and include things like the dev
tools including yacc/lex and was released much, much before the Taylor
version came out -- so what do they use for uucp if at all?
Coherent came with a modified version of Taylor, IIRC. At least in the later
versions; I don't know if they had something else earlier.