Re: Solaris
Tim P. Gerla (timg@means.net)
Fri, 3 Oct 1997 17:34:14 -0500
On Fri, Oct 03, 1997 at 12:57:43PM +0200, Andrej Presern wrote:
> > Somewhat amusing is the way the licensing works for Solaris-x86.
> > The same binaries are used for single and multi CPU kernels (if you like,
> > all Solaris kernels qre built qith the __SMP__ equivalence for Linux).
> > The difference is the _license_. Desktop is single CPU only, so putting
> > a 2nd CPU in your box running a desktop Solaris just means you are
> > running it in an unlicensed configuration. On, for an SMP license,
> > you need to buy the server pack which comes with ODS, etc.
>
> You pay a factor of the price for the same binaries? Sounds like a
> robbery to me..
>
> Andrej
>
Reminds me of WinNT Workstation and Server. The kernel binary is exactly the
same, there was an obscure registery setting that MS went great lengths to
hide that told the kernel what to act as.
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-Tim
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