Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!exodus!mhtsa!mh3bs!eagle!mhuxl!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!parsec!ctvax!uokvax!emjhm From: emjhm@uokvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.cpm Subject: CONIX for CP/M - (nf) Message-ID: <5295@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Tue, 31-Jan-84 23:22:23 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.5295 Posted: Tue Jan 31 23:22:23 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 7-Feb-84 07:28:09 EST Lines: 21 #N:uokvax:7900012:000:1244 uokvax!emjhm Jan 30 17:32:00 1984 Does anyone know anything about the CONIX shell that runs on 32K or greater CP/m systems. I saw a full page advertisement in the Feb. "Computer Shopper" that said it could handle quite a few of the nice things that UNIX has to offer like file pipes/tees and re-direction to name a few. It looks pretty decent for those of us who can't afford full blown UNIX or who are stuck with mere finite spaced, relatively slow floppy disks systems and 8080 or Z-80 processors. Some of the nice things about CONIX seem to be that you can use only the parts that you want or disable functions or frills that you don't need or haven't the capacity for. They also say a few things in their ad which seem to be contradictory. Like for instance they say that the CONIX command processor will run under any CP/M and BIOS on virtually any machine without modification and in the same breath say that it can access 16 disk drives(actual or virtual if they don't exist). How would that be possible without at least fiddling with the BIOS jump vectors? Some folks have their CBIOS in ROM. Will it run on their system? I'd appreciate hearing from anyone that has heard anything or is presently using CONIX. There's got to be a gotcha somewhere. Jim Miller