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		a-dub on July 2, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Installing Linux into a 286 laptop from the year 1... coherent on a 286 was my first experience with unix on intel hardware. good ol' mark williams corporation. i remember it had one hell of a doorstop book that they referred to as "the lexicon."

icedchai on July 2, 2021 [–]

I remember the book that came with Coherent 4.x. It was great! I already knew C, but learned a ton of POSIX / Unix-specific stuff from that book.

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