[Info-vax] New CEO of VMS Software

[Dan Cross]

In article <l02sclFbk87U7 at mid.individual.net>,
bill  <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>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??"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.
>> 
>
>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.

Even better than Symbolics?  :-D

	- Dan C.