From: BUROGE@rulmvs.leidenuniv.nl (Gert Eldering)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: (Copy)      Prime Time Freeware UNIX Coll. (Reviewed by Tony
              Thomas
Date: 2 Sep 92 09:49:07 GMT
Reply-To: "Coherent operating system" <COHERENT@indycms.bitnet>

This message might be of interest for Coherent users who posess a
CD-ROM drive.
Maybe it is also a trigger for someone to write a CD-ROM device driver
in Coherent (Or would that be drive specific?).

Gert Eldering, Leiden University, The Netherlands

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Subject:      Prime Time Freeware UNIX Coll. (Reviewed by Tony Thomas)
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Prime Time Freeware
UNIX(tm) Freeware Collection
Volume 1 - Number 2 July 1992

Reviewed by Tony Thomas


Users of other operating systems are probably a bit frustrated by the
number of shareware/freeware discs for DOS, Windows and the Macintosh
and the comparative scarcity of CD-ROMs for their platform.  Slowly, but
surely such discs are trickling out, and UNIX(tm) and **IX users will be
glad to hear such a collection exists for their operating system(s).
Prime Time Freeware has released two discs containing about 3 gigabytes
of useful freeware(!) applications complete with source code.

Most of this code comes from the Free Software Foundation, UUNET, Cygnus
support and major universities.  Shell scripts are included to support
various interpretations of the ISO-9660 file conventions plus indexes to
allow you to navigate the contents of each disc.  The directories
include ai, database, datacomm, desktop, game, language, math, music,
os, gnu, usenet and window.  There are all kinds of applications on
these discs including CAD packages, mail handing systems, spreadsheets,
emacs editors and tools, LaTex, Tex, chess, programming languages,
graphics tools, X-Windows, Ghostscript and more.  DOS users will
probably recognize some of this stuff due to their gnuish DOS ports.

This release comes with a comb-bound book and the discs are in plastic
sleeves bound in the book.  While not as elegant as the jewel box, this
keeps the book and the discs together and simplifies retail distribution
of the package. The book is very helpful and includes installation
instructions for many systems, plus workarounds for difficult problems,
like getting it to work with A/UX 3.0 (Apple UNIX). Hierarchical and
permuted program lists are also included in the book.

At $60 list (quantity discounts available), this is an excellent value
for UNIX users.  There is enough stuff on these discs to keep your Sun
(or other **IX machine) humming for quite a while.  A regular
subscription service for this bi-annual release is also available.  Even
though all of its contents are Freeware, Prime Time Freeware encourages
you to make donations to the Free Software Foundation and PTF Software
Slush fund to help pay for the cost of creating it.  (FSF donations are
tax deductible, PTF donations are not.)  Five Stars *****

Contact: Prime Time Freeware - 415-112 N. Mary Avenue, Suite 50
                               Sunnyvale, CA  94086
                               Phone: 1-408-738-4832
                               FAX:   1-408-738-2050



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