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From: ZWARTS@HGRRUG51.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: 1-user restriction for VAXserver 3500.
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Date: 18 Mar 88 10:28:00 GMT
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Hello,

We are interested in buying a VAXserver 3500. Our sales rep. told me that there
is a difference in the hardware of a MicroVax 3500 and a VAXserver 3500 in this
respect that the VAXserver 3500 has a chip on board which would prevent the use
of this machine by more then 1 interactive user. In first instance I found it
hard to believe that hardware could lay such a restriction on the use of VMS
(how does hardware determine whether a process is "interactive"?), but it
strikes us that the VAXserver 100 is sold with a two-user VMS license, but the
VAXservers 3500 and 3600, although they are more powerful, are sold with only a
single-user license. We have the following questions:

1) Is it true that the single-user license is enforced by the hardware?

2) If true, is it possible to upgrade to a multi-user system?

3) Is the single-user restriction also restricting users with OPER priv? E.g.
if the system manager wants to shutdown the system, should he first get the
single-user logged out (how?, if that user is accessing the machine via a
DECserver in another building) in order to get himself logged in?

4) How is a single-user defined? Is it possible to have several sessions (with
different usernames) in different windows when using VWS(UIS)?

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