[rescue] Sun 3/60

[Dave McGuire]

On August 16, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> > directly on the shell servers) I hacked up pieces of SunOS4.1.1 to
> > turn a Sun3/160 packed with ALM-1 boards into a terminal server.  All
> > we had was manpower and expertise...not a single dime to spend.  This
> > was a startup company before the days of multimillion-dollar venture
> > capital investments in ISPs. :-)
> 
> Ah, now here I thought when I'd heard you had source that you must have
> been a serious software developer, or big-time SunOS user, and paid the
> big bucks to have it!  :-)

  Well, at its peak, there were something like 1500 machines running
SunOS there.  I'd consider that "big-time". :-)

> I've only ever managed to convince one Sun shop I've ever done any
> programming for to buy SunPRO-C.  They did it because they were
> releasing source to customers who might have had it too so we had to do
> the testing.  We only had a 2-seat license though, which was a major
> pain.

  I hate license systems.

> However I'm doing work for another shop now that's got lots of Sun
> equipment, and oddly enough lots of former Sun employees too, and of
> course they have a copy (which I think is legit -- they're pretty
> careful about such stuff as you can imagine)....  (but it seems to be
> just a two-seat license too, so I never use it except late at night
> after even their engineers have gone off to bed! :-) They've got
> teamware with it too, which I'd love to play around with sometime if I
> can find the time....

  Teamware?  What does that do?

     -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Laurel, MD