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- From: etxorst@eos.ericsson.se (Torsten Lif)
- Subject: Re: Question Regarding Solaris RTU Licensin
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.064151.1756@ericsson.se>
- Sender: news@ericsson.se
- Nntp-Posting-Host: eos92.ericsson.se
- Reply-To: etxorst@eos.ericsson.se
- Organization: Ericsson Telecom AB
- References: <15574@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 06:41:51 GMT
- Lines: 20
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- In article 15574@auspex-gw.auspex.com, guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
- >> Sun machines as delivered come with a RTU of two users. If you add
- >>Xterminal, one may assume that each one represents one more user of
- >>the server hence, one more RTU to buy. The fact that this is not
- >>enforced by the OS doesn't change the legal aspect of it.
- >
- >Actually, that may not be necessary, *if* Sun is merely passing on the
- >requirement that, as I remember, was in AT&T UNIX licenses at one point,
- >namely that you had to buy an N-user license based on the number of
- >*serial ports on the system to which you attach interactive terminals*.
-
- Heh! Does this mean that our old 4/390:s which came with 4 serial ports
- each, have 4 RTU:s while the 4/690 only has two... :-)
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- Torsten Lif
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