I actually purchased several copies of Coherent when it was first released
and used it as printer servers for a bunch of inexpensive Centronics based
printers. lpd based server to server transfers. Took the printing burden
off the main systems. Someone came out with a network based print spooler
box (Milan ??) later on which I switched over to after MW passed into
obscurity.


On Sun, May 1, 2022, 7:46 AM Ron Natalie <ron@ronnatalie.com> wrote:

> Mark Williams Coherent was one I worked with on the PC many years ago.
>
> > On May 1, 2022, at 11:34, Andrew Warkentin <andreww591@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > What was the first "clone" functional Unix (i.e. an OS not derived
> > from genetic Unix code but highly compatible with genetic Unix)? Idris
> > is the earliest such OS of which I am aware (at least AFAIK it's not a
> > genetic Unix), but was it actually the first? Similarly, which was the
> > first "outer Unix-like" system (i.e. one with strong Unix influence
> > but significantly incompatible with functional Unix)? Off the top of
> > my head the earliest such system I can think of is Thoth (which
> > predates Idris by almost 2 years), but again I'm not sure if it was
> > actually the first.
>
>