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From: bill@persci.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.cpm
Subject: Does anybody know anything about "ConIx"?
Message-ID: <139@persci.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 2-Apr-85 10:51:03 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr  2 10:51:03 1985
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I received a flyer in the mail today from an outfit calling itself
'Computer Helper Industries, Inc.', promoting a software system called
'ConIx', which appears to be 'unix-like' overlay for CP/M. (Yes, another
one!) They've been advertising in either Byte or Dr. Dobbs for a while.
These people seem to have a better approach than most 'shell' vendors I've
seen (ex: Micro-shell), one that doesn't appear to tie up a disk with
utlilities. The price seems to be good, if it does half what it says it will.

However.. I am always suspicious of software ads. I have seen a tremendous 
amount of hype in the industry, a lot of promises never matched by the
product, and questionable features glowingly praised ("If you ever run out of
disk space, just swap in a new disk and go.."). 

My question is: Is there anybody out there in CP/M-land who has seen this
software? 

-- 
Bill Swan (..uw-beaver!tikal!persci!bill)
Live in Seattle! 100000000000 slugs couldn't be wrong!