Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ames!aurora!barry From: barry@aurora.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm Subject: Re: CONIX v/xs ZCPR Message-ID: <693@aurora.UUCP> Date: Sat, 6-Jun-87 12:53:28 EDT Article-I.D.: aurora.693 Posted: Sat Jun 6 12:53:28 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 7-Jun-87 03:33:57 EDT References: <176*kenw@noah.arc.cdn> Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Mt. View, Ca. Lines: 38 Summary: Use both! In article <176*kenw@noah.arc.cdn>, kenw@noah.arc.CDN (Ken Wallewein) writes: > For about the last year I've been drooling over the ads for CONIX, the >super-duper CP/M replacement. It got good reviews, and looks better than ZCPR3 >in many ways. I use ZCPR2 now, but a lot of that stuff is only really useful >for hard drives and multiple users (I run dual 8" DSDD floppies and a RAM >disk). > > However, there seems to be a lot of fuss and bother over ZCPR3, but not a >peep about CONIX. How come? Doesn't *anybody* use it? I would really like to >see some discussion. Since no one else has mentioned it, I'd like to point out that ZCPR and CONIX can be used *together*; they get along fine on my system. I run ZCPR2 on an Apple - CP/M system with Sider hard disk (never managed to get ZCPR3.X to work - Softcard CP/M is strange, and I'm no expert in the Z80 world), and have the PD CONIX stuff from SIMTEL. It needs no installation in the system, it's just run like an application, and it gets along just dandy with ZCPR2. I like both enhancements, but generally don't bother running CONIX since: 1) ZCPR eliminates all the worst limitations of vanilla CP/M; 2) CONIX has many, many features, and somewhat cryptic commands, making it less valuable for my occasional use - I can never remember the commands :-(; I'm mainly using a 68000 system these days (Amiga), and thus forgetting what little I did know of CP/M. Nonetheless, CONIX seems, from my occasional use, to be a good product, especially since it can be run when needed, and removed when in the way, without altering one's system software, or needing to choose between it and the Z-system. If it's as compatable with ZCPR3.0 and 3.3 as it is with ZCPR2, the choice is obvious: get both. - From the Crow's Nest - Kenn Barry NASA-Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ELECTRIC AVENUE: {hplabs,seismo,dual,ihnp4}!ames!borealis!barry