[Info-vax] New CEO of VMS Software

[chrisq]

On 1/8/24 08:03, Gary R. Schmidt wrote:
> 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-)


LOL Always thought HP-UX was a bit weird, but it's the result of buying
another unix ws vendor, whose name forget. Like some i-other unix ws
vendors in the early days, the overall structure and shell commands 
hadn't settled down to a common core...

Chris