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From: danielw@wyn386.mi.org (Daniel Wynalda)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386,comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Did you know SCO ODT is SINGLE USER ONLY??
Message-ID: <349@wyn386.mi.org>
Date: 14 Jun 90 18:53:44 GMT
References: <1092@dms.UUCP> <2591@uakari.primate.wisc.edu> <8915@odin.corp.sgi.com> <1990Jun14.122218.18258@virtech.uucp>
Reply-To: danielw@wyn386.UUCP (Daniel Wynalda)
Organization: Wynalda Litho Inc, Rockford MI
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In article <1990Jun14.122218.18258@virtech.uucp> cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
>
>It is common to have a 1-2 user license, but for most of the other products
>it means that at most 2 peopl can log into the system at the same time
>reguardless of the number of gettys.  
>

Yes.  This is the same reason I haven't purchased it.  However, one thing
I might have been tempted to do is this:  NOT even USE SCO's getty. Has
anybody ported uugetty over to SCO ODT?  If so, then you could run as many
getty's as you want... -- I suppose this might border on abusing the 
license you purchased but you aren't using anything SCO sold you to do it.?!.

>>Why is this such a problem unless you're planning to run a bboard
>>or set up a department machine? 

This is EXACTLY the problem.  I would like to TWO login lines I have
at home to be available when I am NOT at home.  This way I can check
mail etc and NO ONE will be on the console.   


I guess I'm just trying to use a commercial venture for a hobby.  SCO
has just begun to get too high priced for the user who wants to run it
at home.... (It costs 3 TIMES what my hardware (386/20) did to get
the system with dev sys etc.!)  In my opinion, for the way I use Unix,
ODT is useless without compilers and libraries...  

One last thing.  While I realize that SCO's main market is NOT the home
user, I refuse to run a different operating system at home than I do at
work.  I requires TWICE the porting time to get the software I want to run
working.  Since I already purchased my two copies of Xenix, and they
were BOTH unlimited user for ~$1000 with DEV SYS, I think I will stick with
it.   - After all I have gcc, gas, gawk, gnuplot, TeX, smail, elm, 
news, and TONS more installed on Xenix now.  I rarely interact with the
SCO product anyhow.  For some reason the Xwindows option doesn't seem worth
$3000.00 to replace each system (properly).



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