11 Mar
2017
11 Mar
'17
12:04 p.m.
On 2017 Mar 9, 21:26, Josh Good wrote:
And by the way, the two user limit in the "Personal Edition" of UnixWare
2.1 seems to be real:
$ telnet 172.27.101.128
Trying 172.27.101.128...
Connected to 172.27.101.128.
Escape character is '^]'.
UnixWare 2.1 (gollum1) (pts/2)
login: jgood
Password:
UnixWare 2.1
gollum1
Copyright 1996 The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. All Rights
Reserved.
Copyright 1984-1995 Novell, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Copyright 1987, 1988 Microsoft Corp. All Rights Reserved.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,349,642
Last login: Tue Mar 9 20:57:05 1999 on pts000
telnetd: set_id() failed: Too many users
.
Connection closed by foreign host.
This thing was released in 1996. Obviously, with this limitation it could
not hold a candle to the emerging Linux tsunammi full of free source code.
On the subject of Linux displacing UnixWare on the PC architecture in the
mid-90's, I've found this most illuminating Usenet thread from 1994, whose
participants include Alan Cox, Theo Tso, and some Novell Product Managers:
http://tech-insider.org/linux/research/1994/1025.html
And what came after that, as they say, is history.
--
Josh Good