Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!sundc!gouldsd!mjranum From: mjranum@gouldsd.UUCP (Marcus J Ranum) Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k Subject: Re: New Cheap Unix Boxes Message-ID: <501@gouldsd.UUCP> Date: Mon, 27-Apr-87 09:30:58 EDT Article-I.D.: gouldsd.501 Posted: Mon Apr 27 09:30:58 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 28-Apr-87 01:26:05 EDT References: <339@hqda-ai.UUCP> <210@eli.UUCP> <111@hobbes.UUCP> Organization: Gould Electronics, Landover MD. Lines: 15 Summary: I don't get it... > [...] ATT has a 'new' licensing agreement: 1-2 users and 3+ users. > The MicroPort SV I have has this; init and getty are the only 2 things which > are different. Uuuggggh. Remember that an incoming uucp is treated as one of > those users! If the things come w/ a 'C' compiler, how hard is it to write a new init and getty... ? Or is there something else they don't give you that keeps you from doing that ? There are PD inits around, I am sure. --mjr() -- If a million monkeys program a million IBM PCs for a million years, they will write something much better than MS-DOS. It will probably run faster, multitask, and really support wildcards. User support will be dramatically improved. -me