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Old 02-15-2008, 06:10 PM
Bill Campbell
 
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Default Re: Ancient SCO Unix Question

On Sat, Jul 22, 2006, Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote:
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>> On Sat, Jul 22, 2006, Rob Steinmetz wrote:
>> >I have been asked to convert an application from SCO Unix Open Desktop
>> >3.0 to a more modern platform.

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>> I don't remember an OpenDesktop 3.0, 2.0 yes.

>
>There was Open Server 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0 and
> Open Desktop 1.0 ,2.0 and 3.0
>
>I had licenses for all of them. Most people had Open Desktop as Open
>Server was extremely expensive. Most Open Desktop was Single User or 16
>User. But the network printing was not very good. I later used netcat
>with them to get more repliable printing. The 3.0 version was based on
>Unix 3.2v4.2 with X.


I generally had my customers buy the top-end SCO 3.2v[45] packages since
they included all the networking, and it was far easier to do updates than
maintaining multiple packages.

Bill
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