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From: aris@tabbs.UUCP (Aris Stathakis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: 2-user systems
Message-ID: <2314@tabbs.UUCP>
Date: 28 Nov 90 17:52:16 GMT
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In <2391@sixhub.UUCP> davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) writes:

>  Very! Most two user systems limit the number of user logins to two
>(wouldn't and reasonable implementation?), while SCO limits the gettys.
>So if you want to use the console and ethernet, and two serial modems,
>you can't, have a getty on all of them, even if you are only going to
>use max two at a time.

>  SCO says they're going to look at this, but I don't know of a
>committment to change it. Other vendors count all console logins as one,
>and allow one other.

I disagree.  SCO UNIX and OpenDesktop "2 user" versions are actually
"2 Keyboard" versions.  This means that you can have unlimited console
logins (I'd like to see multiple users use the multi-screens at the
same time :-) and one additional login (modem, ethernet, or terminal).
In the case of OpenDesktop you can add an X-terminal as your second
"keyboard".

>  For a personal system there's no problem, you can have a getty on a
>serial port for uucp or friends with any of the systems. And all the
>users in passwd you're filespace will hold.

Sure, and it's nice for development too.

Aris

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