Advent of Computing

Episode 30 - Coherent Is Not UNIX!


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In the current day Linux is the most widely used UNIX-like operating system. It's rise to prominence has been an amazing success story. From it's humble beginnings Linux has grown to power everything from super computers to car stereos. But it's not the first UNIX clone. A much earlier system existed, called Coherent. And as it turns out both Linux and Coherent share a lot of similarities. The biggest difference being that Coherent was closed source.

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Important dates in this episode:

1973: AT&T UNIX V4 Goes Public 1949: DOJ Sues AT&T Over Antitrust Violations 1975: AT&T UNIX V6 Released 1977: First Version of BSD Circulates 1977: XYBASIC Released by Mark Williams Company 1980: Coherent Released for PDP/11 1983: Coherent Comes to the IBM PC/XT 1995: Mark Williams Company Closes

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