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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
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Subject: Re: Why does everything say "limit of 3 users"?
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Date: 25 Sep 90 22:54:59 GMT
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In article <1990Sep24.213213.26431@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> wayne@csri.toronto.edu (Wayne Hayes) writes:
>Why does the Minix documentation still say "Limit of 3 users"?  

Simply because PCs normally have only two serial ports plus the console.
There are no technical reasons you can't have more users.  You just have to
change a couple of constants in the tty driver and recompile.

Also, you may have to change a couple of things down there to support more
physical RS232 lines.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)