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  • COHERENT 2.3.43 available

    From Udo Munk@21:1/5 to All on Fri Dec 17 11:19:30 2021
    COHERENT release 2.3.43 (8086) for the IBM PC is available.
    Disk images here: https://www.autometer.de/unix4fun/coherent/ftp/distrib/Coherent-2.3.43/

    And the installation instructions and manual: https://www.autometer.de/unix4fun/coherent/ftp/manuals/

    This was made available by Wouter Visscher, thanks.

    Enjoy,
    Udo

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  • From frasc@21:1/5 to Udo Munk on Sat Dec 18 09:29:43 2021
    On Friday, December 17, 2021 at 11:19:31 AM UTC-8, Udo Munk wrote:
    COHERENT release 2.3.43 (8086) for the IBM PC is available.

    Awesome !!!!!

    That's one great XMas present :-)

    Thanks to both of you and Wouter.

    Merry Christmas, all.
    --F.R.R.

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  • From frasc@21:1/5 to All on Sat Dec 18 10:34:24 2021
    Now, just out of curiosity, what was COHERENT 1.x ???

    Thanks again
    --F.R.R.

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  • From Udo Munk@21:1/5 to frasc on Sat Dec 18 11:36:31 2021
    frasc schrieb am Samstag, 18. Dezember 2021 um 19:34:25 UTC+1:
    Now, just out of curiosity, what was COHERENT 1.x ???

    Original implementation was for PDP-11, then ported to Z8000 and 68000.

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  • From Udo Munk@21:1/5 to frasc on Sat Dec 18 11:33:56 2021
    frasc schrieb am Samstag, 18. Dezember 2021 um 19:34:25 UTC+1:
    Now, just out of curiosity, what was COHERENT 1.x ???

    Thanks again
    --F.R.R.

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  • From Nigel Williams@21:1/5 to All on Thu Dec 30 22:41:21 2021
    Thank you Udo for making this version available.

    Has anyone had success getting it to install using PCE [1]?
    I have managed to boot the boot disk, partition a hard-drive and reboot the hard-drive for the next step, I see the splash screen:

    Coherent (433K, 7284) Version 2.3.43
    (c) 1982 - 1985 Mark Williams Company, Chicago

    appears, but then nothing further. If I inspect the CPU state, it appears to have stopped with IP=0020 perhaps waiting for an interrupt that never comes?

    I had to add a third parallel port at 0x3BC for an error that appears during reboot complaining that address does not respond.

    I will try again using PCem on Windows to see if that works any better.


    [1] pce-ibmpc version 20211108-09abd2e3

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  • From Nigel Williams@21:1/5 to Nigel Williams on Fri Dec 31 07:22:31 2021
    On Friday, 31 December 2021 at 17:41:22 UTC+11, Nigel Williams wrote:
    Has anyone had success getting it to install using PCE [1]?
    I have managed to boot the boot disk, partition a hard-drive and reboot the hard-drive for the next step, I see the splash screen:

    Never mind, Hampa figured it out (thanks Hampa!), turns out the coh-2.3.43-boot.dsk image has two errant files in /tmp that need to be removed.
    Once removed the install completes as expected.

    Hampa has provided a fixed boot disk image here:

    http://www.hampa.ch/pub/pce/misc/coh-2.3.43-boot-fixed.zip

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