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Coherent (operating system)

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Coherent is a clone of the Unix operating system for IBM PC compatibles and other microcomputers, developed and sold by the now-defunct Mark Williams Company. It was originally a proprietary product but became open source in 2015, released under the BSD-3-Clause license. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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License
BSD 3-Clause 1
Status
Status
Discontinued 1
Year
1980 1
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Source Wikipedia: Coherent (operating system)

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1. Wikipedia: Coherent (operating system)
  • Infobox
    working_state=Discontinued
  • Infobox field released
    released = 1980
  • entity record, description (license)
    It was originally a proprietary product but became open source in 2015, released under the BSD-3-Clause license.
  • In Field: Operating Systems, Lead sentence
    Coherent is a clone of the Unix operating system for IBM PC compatibles and other microcomputers, developed and sold by the now-defunct Mark Williams Company (MWC).
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