Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!cbnewsc!schnable
From: schnable@cbnewsc.att.com (andrew.schnable)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: MKS toolkit
Message-ID: <1990Jul7.030319.1292@cbnewsc.att.com>
Date: 7 Jul 90 03:03:19 GMT
References: <138474@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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From article <138474@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>, by andrewr@ultrix.Eng.Sun.COM (Andy Roach):
> Hi,
> 	does anyone have any experience of running the MKS toolkit and
> vi on a T1000SE? How much memory does it grab ? Performance ?

you bet. a great combo. Runs just fine. Here is a listing of my d: and a:/bin:

a:/bin: ansi.ksh awk.exe basename.exe bundle.ksh cal.exe calendar.exe 
	cat.exe cd.exe chmod.exe comm.exe comtoexe.exe cp.exe cpio.exe 
	ctrm.exe cut.exe date.exe df.exe diff.exe dirname.exe du.exe 
	echo.exe egrep.exe env.exe expr.exe file.exe find.exe fold.exe 
	help.exe join.exe login.exe logname.exe lzexe.exe mkdir.exe 
	mv.exe od.exe paste.exe pckscrn.com pg.exe pr.exe ps.exe 
	pwd.exe rm.exe rmdir.exe sed.exe sleep.exe sort.exe split.exe 
	sum.exe switch.exe tail.exe tee.exe test.exe touch.exe tr.exe 
	tty.exe uudecode.exe uuencode.exe wc.exe which.exe xargs.exe 

d:/ 	autoexec.bat date.exe environ.ksh ls.exe sh.exe vi.exe

I do not have the 2M card - if I did - all my mks tools would be on
the ram drive... ctrm.exe is my terminal emulator, and lzexe.exe is
a wonderful program that compresses executables making it possible
to get all this on my 1.44Mb floppy and still have 700K left over.
All the other tools from MKS. Notice that I try and keep sh, ls, and
vi on the ram drive - they load faster that way.

A quick chkdsk reveals:

  1457664 bytes total disk space
    65536 bytes in 6 hidden files
     9728 bytes in 12 directories
   888320 bytes in 137 user files
   494080 bytes available on disk

   655184 bytes total memory
   378640 bytes free

By removing TSRs I can get my free memory more in the range of 500K.

a.schnable@att.com