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From: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: MKS toolkit
Message-ID: <1137@virtech.UUCP>
Date: 9 Sep 89 00:52:46 GMT
References: <4377@cps3xx.UUCP> <26564@abbott.mips.COM> <4533@cps3xx.UUCP>
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc
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In article <4533@cps3xx.UUCP>, usenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner) writes:
> Does anybody know if MKS toolkit (which is supposed to emulate UNIX)
> supports multitasking?  If it does, how slow is it?  (I have a 286

It does not.  The MKS toolkit is an MS-DOS collection of unix like programs
which makes working in DOS just slightly palatable for people used to 
UNIX.

> motherboard with XT hard disk).  Would it be reasonable on my machine,
> or would I find that it was painfully slow.  (I want reasonable response
> when I'm in an editor, like less than 1/4 second.)

While you don't have multi-tasking, you do have the look and feel of 
unix.  I think it's a worthwhile package to have.


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