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From: gph@hpsemc.HP.COM (Paul Houtz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MKS Toolkit question
Message-ID: <8090016@hpsemc.HP.COM>
Date: 30 Mar 89 19:45:53 GMT
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Organization: HP Technology Access Center, Cupertino, CA
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cnee@wright.EDU (Cheng-Lee Nee) writes:

>Recently, I have read some discussions on the net concerning the 
>MKS Toolkit. As far as I know, there is a c-shell clone included in
>the kit. My question is: Is it run on top of the COMMAND.COM or as
>a replacement? How much free RAM (out of 640K) would left after
>loading the shell (or anything else)? I'd really like to purchase a
>copy of the Toolkit but I am using some software that requires 512K
>free RAM. If the Toolkit can't fit my needs, I'll have to stick
>with the PiCnix.

    I just bought MKS Toolkit a week ago.  It has a Korn shell (not c-shell)
included, and it can run either on top of COMMAND.COM or in  place of it.
I have my machine set up so that you can login and get COMMAND.COM or KORN
SHELL.   You just put COMMAND.COM in the /etc/passwd file at the end of
the login entry.

   I have no idea how much memory it takes, but it seems significant.

   What is PiCnix?

Paul Houtz
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