recker@blizzard.Eng.Sun.COM (John Recker) (04/15/91)
Posted for a friend, please reply to him directly...
Has anybody out there used MKS tools? No, Virgina, MKS tools is NOT UNIX.
But it looks like UNIX, it runs on PCs, and it is fast. I use this product
at work almost every day and I love it - it makes DOS tolerable. But for an
SX notebook, I'm wondering how it compares with Coherent in terms of speed.
Does Coherent have little enough overhead to make the multi-tasking features
worthwhile? I'm not interested in starting religious wars here, the point is
to get something which at least looks like UNIX, with all the favorite utilities
( awk, diff, grep, sed, sh, vi ) but without waiting forever for them to execute.
In other words, what's the cheapest, highest performance path to something that
looks like UNIX, and runs comfortably on a SX (60MB disk + 2MB ram)?
MKS does good things for $200, but can I get better perfomance for $100 ?
In a good and benevolent universe, Coherent's elegant simplicity would make it
faster, but I'm not holding my breath.
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-------------------------------------------------feustel@netcom.COM (David Feustel) (04/16/91)
MKS runs with the dos file system. Coherent does not. Regardless of the merits (and I think they are considerable), if you work with dos, stick to MKS(which I regard as THE essential piece of dos software after dos itself). -- David Feustel, 1930 Curdes Ave, Fort Wayne, IN 46805, (219) 482-9631 EMAIL: netcom.com