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- From: sean@mks.com (Sean Goggin)
- Subject: Re: MKS Toolkit
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.233023.26902@mks.com>
- Organization: Mortice Kern Systems Inc., Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
- References: <27800021@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com> <1992Aug31.032848.4818@news.uakron.edu> <1992Sep2.160649.6699@ssigate.ssinc.com>
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 23:30:23 GMT
- Lines: 44
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- msc@ssigate.ssinc.com (Michael S. Cross) writes:
- >>I'd like to hear some opinions about the MKS Toolkit ---
- >
- >OK, Here's what I've got to say. BTW, I have Version 2.3 which is rather
- >old (1988). Someday I'll plop down $225 for an upgrade. Maybe after I get
- >a larger Hard Drive.
-
- Upgrades of the MKS Toolkit are $69 and support contacts for a year $89
- ( a support contract includes upgrade and 1 800 support )
-
- >> Are the Unix-like tools good emulations?
- >Dang near perfect. The compress(1) was not 16 bits, but there is a PD tool
- >called COMP430D.ZIP (or something a lot like that) that does the trick.
-
- The current version has 16 bit compress
-
- >> (i.e. is the shell huge?)
- >Well, some of the newer DOS versions have done some work to reduce that
- >overhead. I doubt that the MKS toolkit shrunk in subsequent releases.
- >In the computer world, I have yet to see a new release that is actually
- >smaller that a previous release.
-
- Since 3.1 the shell has a mode to save memory, sh.exe -R 0,
- in which it's code segment is reduced to 27k,
- that means the shell is in the 40 k range
- if you have alot of aliases and stuff set.
-
- >>Is there maybe a mailing list for the MKS Toolkit or users?
- >>Finally, is MKS on the net or email anywhere?
-
- We do not want to abuse the internet.
- Please email us at inquiry@mks.com if you have any questions.
-
- >I don't know of any mailing list. MKS is on the NET. I thought I had the
- >address around here somewhere. The manual says uunet!watmath!mks!toolkit
- >but I don't know if the link is still active. I can't seem to find them
- >listed in the UUMAPS. (but what does that prove? We aren't listed [yet]
- >either)
-
- watmath's mail routing is now done by watserv1
- but name@mks.com is MX forwarded and should always work.
-
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- Sean.Goggin..sean@mks.com.............Mortice.Kern.Systems.Waterloo.Ontario.Can.
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