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

Bill Campbell wrote:
> 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.
>>> 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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I remember it a little differently. Open Desktop was a 2 user license
and Open Server was the multi-user version starting at 16 users. They
both included all of the networking and X stuff, at least from ODT 2,
which was the first version I had after Xenix. I never saw an
OpenServer/Desktop 1.0. I never had a OpenServer 2.0 or OpenDesktop 3.0.
Then I went to OpenServer 5.0.x which did have the different versions
(Host Enterprise).

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Rob
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