Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tektronix!tekcrl!tekgvs!keithe
From: keithe@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MKS Idea
Keywords: MKS with MSC
Message-ID: <4255@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM>
Date: 14 Nov 88 21:10:20 GMT
References: <4994@whuts.UUCP> <7501@dasys1.UUCP> <546@mks.UUCP> <1396@stiatl.UUCP>
Reply-To: keithe@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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In article <1396@stiatl.UUCP> john@stiatl.UUCP (John DeArmond) writes:
>I've been watching this discussion on the various incompatibilities with
>DOS and MKS and the thought just struck me.  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.
>
>Maybe we could get a discussion going here and maybe if there's enough
>interest, Gerry could make it happen.  How 'bout it guys.. interested in
>getting away from Microsloth pseudo-dos?  Lets make some noise.
>
>

Without a doubt one of the best ideas ever to come down usenet!  Go for it,
Gerry.  Do a '286 version separate from the '386 version, though, so you
can do the '386 version right and keep the '286 cretinisms out of an
otherwise potentially fantastic product.

I think the key is Multitasking SINGLE USER. I don't WANT other users on my
machine! It's a waste of resources (your programming time and my machine)
to include that capability in my desktop computing environment. If I want
multi-user I'll go with multi-machines.

Oh, yeah: include SCSI and RLL capability, too.  Ethernet if you can.  (Or
contract it out if you can't.) Print spooler(s), too.

And do a "tar" while you're at it, eh?

keith