tml@hemuli.tik.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist) (03/06/90)
I recently inherited the job of administering a microvaxII running Ultrix. When upgrading to Ultrix 3.1 I noticed that the tape also contained the UWS 2.1 upgrade. Using mt, dd, zcat and tar, I unpacked also these filesets (I guess setld wouldn't have done it, as we don't have the corresponding UWS 2.0 software, yes?). The microvax is no workstation, of course, but we have a bunch of other workstations running X here. Is UWS a part of Ultrix, but not distributed to customers who don't have workstations? Is it a separately sold product? Is it OK to use these nifty X clients (dxcalendar in particular looks interesting) that DEC put on the update tape?
hall@wsl.dec.com (Jon "Maddog" Hall) (03/22/90)
UWS is a product that is made of two parts: o ULTRIX (the base system) o Graphic components: - libraries - clients - window managers UWS is sold as a single product, but for people who wish to use the graphic components on their timesharing machine (for display upon X-terminals or to other workstations over the network) we sell a server license and kit. Since you already have the components, you need only buy the server license. Certain of the hardware machines (particularly the newer RISC and VAX server systems such as the DECsystem 3100) have already had the server license bundled in. The MicroVAX II timesharing machine (alas) did not.