COHERENT

Coherent

The Coherent operating system was a Version 7 Unix clone by the now-defunct Mark Williams Company, originally produced for the PDP-11 in 1980. A port was introduced in 1983 as the first Unix-like system for IBM PC compatible computers.

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coherent

Adjective

  1. Unified; sticking together; making up a whole.
  2. Orderly, logical and consistent.
  3. Aesthetically ordered.
  4. Having a natural or due agreement of parts; harmonious: a coherent design.
  5. Of waves having the same direction, wavelength and phase, as light in a laser.
  6. Attaching or pressing against an organ of the same nature.
  7. Belonging to a specific class of sheaves having particularly manageable properties closely linked to the geometrical properties of the underlying space.


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