[Info-vax] tcpip

[Michael Kraemer]

John Wallace schrieb:

> 
> Sorry but the hoops you now have to jump through to licence, activate,
> etc a retail (or OEM) Windows installation make entering PAKs (which
> can trivially be scripted) look, er, trivial. Of course hassles like
> that don't affect corporate customers or warez customers, just Honest
> Joe Public (me). (I'm assuming it's no better in Vista or Win7 than it
> was with XP).

But at least, that's for the entire system.
For OS/2 eCS one indeed has to enter an XXL size key,
but again this covers the entire system
(including gfx and networking).
My Apple Powerbook came preloaded and configuring networking
is as easy as one can think of.

But anyway, the competitors in this respect are not only those
consumer OSs, but for example AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, Linux, etc
and even DEC's abandonware OSF/1 and Ultrix.
None if these require to enter keys just to get
network and/or gfx.

> OK a modern UNIX doesn't need you to rebuild your kernel very often

I may be a bit spoiled, but a modern Unix such as AIX
doesn't need kernel building at all. And that's
how it was already twenty years ago.
The notion that I had to "build" something I already
had paid $$$ for (as a paying customer) was beyond
my comprehension - until a realized classical Unices
needed it, as well as VMS to a degree.