Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1a 12/4/83; site rlgvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!vax135!houxz!houxm!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!seismo!rlgvax!guy From: guy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: PC/IX and Xenix: of Licenses and Multiusers Message-ID: <2035@rlgvax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 26-Jun-84 01:28:27 EDT Article-I.D.: rlgvax.2035 Posted: Tue Jun 26 01:28:27 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 22-Jun-84 07:32:05 EDT References: <927@sri-arpa.UUCP> Organization: CCI Office Systems Group, Reston, VA Lines: 27 One point, and one question: 1) The AT&T binary sublicenses for UNIX are priced according to the number of users on the system for which the sublicense is issued. The single-user license is *very* cheap (price starts at $100, after your first $1M of all UNIX licenses it drops to $70, after your first $2.5M it drops to $40). For 2-16 users it jumps to $250/$125/$50. (These are the S3 prices, which apply to PC/IX which is an S3 port. I think the S5 prices are the same. Nobody cares about the V7 prices for small systems because the S3 prices are cheaper there and you can offer V7 or S3 for those prices.) If IBM is sublicensing PC/IX with a single-user binary license, you *may not* add another user to the system; this means you may not hang a send/receive terminal off any serial (or other) port on the machine. (Anybody know whether pseudo-ttys count - i.e., whether TELNET or "rlogin" has to be disabled on single-user machines or throttled on multi-user machines?) 2) "The Xenix agreement is more severe, as I noted in my review... because you are explicitly given permission to write in the margins of the manual (but I cannot underline or markup the text???)..." My, how generous of Microsoft. Are the manuals you get marked "Property of Microsoft?" If not, I suspect there's no way they could stop you from writing in the margins, underlining text, or drawing a "Kilroy was here" at the top of every page. Guy Harris {seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!rlgvax!guy