Linux displacing UnixWare on the PC architecture - TUHS

11 Mar 2017

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