[Info-vax] New CEO of VMS Software

[Dan Cross]

In article <unh8er$1jkbg$1 at dont-email.me>, chrisq  <devzero at nospam.com> wrote:
>On 1/8/24 08:03, Gary R. Schmidt wrote:
>> On 08/01/2024 00:29, chrisq wrote:
>>> On 1/7/24 00:19, Dan Cross wrote:
>>>> In article <uncqas$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??"Â  "Because we don't just run Oracle, you luser."
>> 
>>  Â Â Â Â 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...

I believe that you're thinking of Apollo, which had an operating
system called "Domain/OS" (originally "AEGIS") which was not
really Unix, though had a Unix "environment".  It was done from
scratch and more closely resembled Multics in internal
sturcture.

Over time, HP ditched the underlying OS and went with their
System V derivative instead.

An interesting tie-in to DEC was, when HP acquited Compaq, and
thus the DEC IP rights, whether they would wind down HP-UX and
go with Tru64 as their Unix offering (or the other way around).
Too bad that HP-UX is the one still standing.  :-(

	- Dan C.