Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!mcdchg!motsj1!hplabs!ucbvax!TEMPLEVM.BITNET!V2002A From: V2002A@TEMPLEVM.BITNET ("The Radio Gnome") Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: Multi-terminal service and license key Message-ID: <8805120932.AA03169@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 19 Apr 88 12:30:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 42 Hi, Having just finished setting up a vanilla uVAX II VMS/Allin1 system for a user, we are faced with a dilemma. This user currently has a dedicated PDP-11/34 (RSTS/E v7.1) running a turnkey application that acts as a data collection system. Six terminals are controlled by a single job which opens the terminals as slave devices. A second job communicates with the first to verify the data entry and update the master files. It runs detached. My questions are if we port this thing to the uVAX... 1) Will the six slave terminals be counted as a single user if under the control of the master program? 2) If the answer to 1 is yes, then will this conflict with the 8 user license agreement? These slave terminals will be operating in addition to up to 7 Allin1 users. So in theory we could have 13 'users' on an 8 user system. I believe a 'SHOW USERS' would show 7 Allin1 users and a 'CONTROL' user. The control user would have a sub-process (the data verification and file update) and six devices under its wing. We would be porting from BASIC-PLUS to VAX BASIC and using FMS forms for data entry. I'm sure there are many applications like this out there in VAXland. I'd appreciate any experiences, suggestions, warnings etc. In case you're wondering, the user doesn't have the money for a 16 user key, but has the money for an additional dhv11. uVAX II VMS 4.5 1 rd53 1 dzq11 2 rc25 1 dhv11 Thanx in advance! Andy Wing Temple Health Sciences Center V2002A%TEMPLEVM.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU {whatever,link,pleases,you}psuvm1!templevm.bitnet!v2002a -------