24 Mar
2009
24 Mar
'09
1:21 p.m.
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 4:12 PM, <arcarlini at iee.org> wrote:
cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org wrote:
Ah... that sounds familiar. Of course, who would consider trying to
get 64 users on a 4MB MicroVAX I - that's just not gonna happen. A
9MB MicroVAX II might be able to handle it if there wasn't a lot of
memory-intensive activity.
Speaking of fuzzy details, my recollection of the
"key"
process was that it only mattered for DECnet, and you got an
install-medium-compatible "key"....
The base system was licenced for some number of users, maybe 8,
maybe 2. The "licence key" was basically a patch to LOGINOUT.EXE
that allowed more users (8, 64, unlimited, probably other options). The DECnet "key" was (iirc) also a patch
that enabled end node or full
routing, depending on which you had.
Sounds right, but I don't recall fiddling with that much.
I think clustering was done the same way.
We didn't do clustering so I have no experience with that.
I remember pulling apart the base system licence and
thinking that
it would have been pretty easy to subvert. Then again, just like
the LMF, I think the idea was to keep the honest, honest rather
than keeping the bad guys out.
I think that was pretty much the point.
-ethan