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From: krogers@esunix.UUCP (Keith Rogers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: MKS Toolkit questions
Keywords: MKS
Message-ID: <1283@esunix.UUCP>
Date: 27 May 89 16:32:08 GMT
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Organization: Evans & Sutherland, Salt Lake City, Utah
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My place of employment is a VMS bastion, but we do have a few ULTRIX
machines around.  I got an account on one a while back and, after the
intital shock of unix's tersness, I've really taken to its 'look &
feel'.  I'm finding I wish I had many of its commands for my PC.

From what I've read, the MKS Toolkit is what I want, but I don't know
any of the nitty-gritty details that can make or break such a utility
and I don't know anyone who has ever used it.  So I have a list of
questions here which I hope someone out there can answer:

1) I believe that command.com is replaced by some other shell.  How big
   is it?  (My concern here is of course the 640k memory restriction on
   dos.)  Can it reside in epanded memory, which I don't have but am
   considering getting?

2) Does something need to be done to run canned dos programs; i.e. does
   command.com need to be reinstalled or something?  I guess I'm very
   fuzzy on how MKS Toolkit relates to BIOS, etc.

3) The bottom line is: will it run at an 'acceptable' speed on my AT&T
   PC6300 (an 8086 based 8 Mhz XT like machine)?  I do have a hard disk
   (who doesn't?) but it's not terribly fast.  I'm posting this article
   so that I don't get a sales pitch to this question.  No doubt Mortice
   Kern would tell me it's the greatest thing since sliced bread, even
   on my lowly machine.

I am looking for any information from people who actually use or have
tried the MKS Toolkit.  Post or e-mail as you see fit.  Thanks in
advance,

Keith Rogers  UUCP: utah-cs!esunix!krogers, or you might try
                    uplherc!esunix!krogers