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From: pavlov@hscfvax.harvard.edu (G.Pavlov)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MKS Idea
Keywords: MKS with MSC
Message-ID: <664@hscfvax.harvard.edu>
Date: 12 Nov 88 23:51:54 GMT
References: <4994@whuts.UUCP> <7501@dasys1.UUCP> <546@mks.UUCP> <1396@stiatl.UUCP>
Organization: Health Sciences Computing Facility, Harvard University
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In article <1396@stiatl.UUCP>, john@stiatl.UUCP (John DeArmond) writes:
> ...........................................  Why does not Mortise Kern
> go ahead and turn MKS into a standalone OS?  Hmmmmm...  You guys already
> have about 80% of it done with the shell and utilities.  Why not put together
> a nice little multitasking, single user kernel to run below the shell.
> 
  I don't think that what has been done is anywhere close to "80%" of what would
  be needed.  The shell and utilities are the least of it.

  greg pavlov, fstrf, amherst, ny