Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!paperboy!meissner From: meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: License Management Facility (LMF) Message-ID: Date: 11 Apr 90 15:42:56 GMT References: <10142@shlump.nac.dec.com> <00934FDA.44D76CA0@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU>,<54695@bbn.COM> <00934FEF.79711AA0@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU> Sender: news@OSF.ORG Organization: Open Software Foundation Lines: 24 In-reply-to: barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com's message of 11 Apr 90 12:43:18 GMT In article barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) writes: | Therefore a Sun with two serial ports is a two-user machine. You can | have 100 people log on over the network. and it won't kick you off with | "too many users". If you add a 16-port serial interface card, you should | purchase a multi-user upgrade. | | For some reason DEC considers a network connect a new user, while Sun | does not. Don't ask me why. Yeah, when I was at DG we tried to get AT&T to say one way or another whether network users (and batch jobs on the layered UNIX port) were considered users or not...... Fortunately for us at that time, AT&T made the issue moot by removing all of the user classifications (and lowering the per CPU cost, though raising the initial cost). Another fun issue is whether a cluster type of computers is one computer or many...... -- Michael Meissner email: meissner@osf.org phone: 617-621-8861 Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA Catproof is an oxymoron, Childproof is nearly so