Date   : Tue, 31 Jan 1984 20:22:23-PST (Tue)
From   : pur-ee!uiucdcs!parsec!ctvax!uokvax!emjhm@ucb-vax
Subject: CONIX for CP/M - (nf)

#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