Trixter
Veteran Member
If you chose version 3.x of Coherent, and had a 286 with 2MB of RAM, and chose B&W (mono) X-Windows, it worked. Granted, you couldn't do much else (Coherent never supported swap), but it did work. I ran it for half a year when I was in tech support. It required 4MB of RAM with 4.x which required a 386.
I started there as technical sales right out of college and while I there I performed jobs such as coding software for the diskette duplicator, running the UUCP-based BBS, joining tech support, and then finally becoming "Director of Tech Support" (because I was the only one left when they had to let everyone else go due to the company starting to fail). It is one of my fondest work memories, as everyone there was very smart and taught a young cocky kid to be less cocky and more professional.
BTW my name is in the manual as "James Leonard". I'm still in touch with Hal Snyder (kernel dev, SCSI driver, sound card driver), Louis Giliberto (IDE and other drivers), Ed Bravo (tech support), Jeff Day (technical sales), Addison Snell (marketing, who later went on to work at SGI and is now a HPC consultant), and a few others. Unfortunately I've lost contact with Stephen Davis who I really wanted to stay in touch with, except he's from the UK and "Stephen Davis" over there is equivalent to "John Smith" in the USA -- one of the most common names in the country so it's nearly impossible to locate the exact person...
I started there as technical sales right out of college and while I there I performed jobs such as coding software for the diskette duplicator, running the UUCP-based BBS, joining tech support, and then finally becoming "Director of Tech Support" (because I was the only one left when they had to let everyone else go due to the company starting to fail). It is one of my fondest work memories, as everyone there was very smart and taught a young cocky kid to be less cocky and more professional.
BTW my name is in the manual as "James Leonard". I'm still in touch with Hal Snyder (kernel dev, SCSI driver, sound card driver), Louis Giliberto (IDE and other drivers), Ed Bravo (tech support), Jeff Day (technical sales), Addison Snell (marketing, who later went on to work at SGI and is now a HPC consultant), and a few others. Unfortunately I've lost contact with Stephen Davis who I really wanted to stay in touch with, except he's from the UK and "Stephen Davis" over there is equivalent to "John Smith" in the USA -- one of the most common names in the country so it's nearly impossible to locate the exact person...