How the Mac was born... supposedly...

[Eric J Korpela]

On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 11:58:01 -0800, Mark Davidson <medavidson at mac.com> wrote:
> At one point, there was a web site (in Europe, I believe) that had a
> complete archive of the Coherent distribution.  Unfortunately, Coherent
> has very few drivers and those that exist don't play well with modern
> hardware.  For example, Coherent's disk utility for setting up file
> systems absolutely has problems with drives of any reasonable size
> today (I had problems getting it to work with an 8 GB IDE drive, for
> example).

The question is, does anyone have a copy of the original (8086)
version of Coherent.  The closest I've seen is the 286 version.  Did
the 8086 version really exist, or was it just vaporware?

Eric