Coherent (operating system)

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). Historically, the operating system was a proprietary product, but it became open source in 2015, released under the BSD-3-Clause license.

Coherent
Coherent 4.2.10 installer
DeveloperMark Williams Company
OS familyUnix-like
Working stateDiscontinued
Source modelClosed source; open sourced in 2015
Initial release1980 (1980)
Latest release4.2.14 / 1994 (1994)
Available inEnglish
PlatformsPDP-11, x86 (8088, 286, 386, 486), Motorola 68000, Zilog Z8000
Kernel typeMonolithic
Default
user interface
Command-line (KornShell)
License2015: BSD-3-Clause
Original: Proprietary
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