[geeks] nerd reading for a Friday night ... old-skool waxed

[Dave Fischer]

gsm at mendelson.com writes:

>On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 08:14:30PM +0000, Mike Meredith wrote:

>I was more of a floppy kind of guy. I bought Esix 3.2 on floppy, 4.0
>on tape (with boot floppies), Coherent on floppy (anyone remember that?),
>but the first real Linux system I installed was from CD-ROM.

I wrote the first 3rd-party commercial software for Coherent-286.
(First, or only? Dunno.) Coherent was great. Made your PC feel like
a small PDP-11. Never used the 386 version, had moved off PCs by
that point.

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