[Info-vax] New CEO of VMS Software

[bill]

On 1/8/2024 12:25 PM, Dan Cross wrote:
> 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??"  "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...
> 
> 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.
> 

Ahhhh, Apollo.  I used to have one at the house.  Now that winter
is here I really miss it.  Best room heater I ever had.

bill