[Info-vax] New CEO of VMS Software
Gary R. Schmidt
grschmidt at acm.org
Mon Jan 8 03:03:54 EST 2024
On 08/01/2024 00:29, chrisq wrote:
> On 1/7/24 00:19, Dan Cross wrote:
>> In article <uncqas$pust$1 at dont-email.me>,
>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo at nz.invalid> wrote:
>>> On Sat, 6 Jan 2024 23:42:26 -0000 (UTC), Dan Cross wrote:
>>>
>>>> I remember pretty specifically maximum user limits on versions of
>>>> commercial Unix.
>>>
>>> How would such limits be enforced? Presumably they only applied to some
>>> extra-cost "layered product", not to the core OS.
>>
>> No, they applied to the OS as a while.
>
> Don't remember that at all. Not on SGI, Sun or HPUX, nor Ultrix, fwir.
>
> Examples ?...
>
HP-UX came with a two-login license by default, one for the console and
one to allow remote administration. :-)
Well, 7, 8, 9, and 10 did, I don't recall ever installing 11.x from scratch.
You had to order more if you wanted them, and it would occasionally
throw the monkeys at HP, at least here in OZ: "Why do you need more user
logins to run Oracle??" "Because we don't just run Oracle, you luser."
Cheers,
Gary B-)
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