[rescue] Solaris 8 Differences

[Kevin Loch]

Radford University had a Sunlab in the early 90's.  When you logged
in to the console (these weren't running xdm), the standard .profile
would ask you which window system you wanted to use.  The choices were 
something like:

1. Openview
2. Sunview
3. X11R4 (twm)
4. command line

If you chose 4, it would bark something like "please use a terminal
for non GUI work" and log you out.

Of course there were only like 2 terminals in that room, and about
30 workstations (mostly SLC's, with some SS1+'s, sun3's).

KL

"Greg A. Woods" wrote:
> 
> [ On Tuesday, February 5, 2002 at 05:18:09 (-0500), Brian Hechinger wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: [rescue] Solaris 8 Differences
> >
> > who says it has to be the system console?  most machines have at least two
> > serial lines, and most other "real" computers can have an insane number of
> > serial lines put on them.
> 
> I once did some work for a company with well over 100 data entry clerks
> on serial terminals connected to a Plexus system.  I know of companies
> who had AT&T 3B2s of various sizes with up to 80 typists doing word
> processing.  I've nothing against doing data entry on serial ports.  But
> anyone doing anything user-like on a server system console should stopped.
> 
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