In article <bXBPa.55531$ZS3.6036661@news2.telusplanet.net>,
Skot <skot@canada.com> wrote:
>Update:

>Bill Vermillion wrote:

>> Any OS of which I'm aware has to be reloaded when you change
>> the 'engine'. That's about the only thing you should ever have to
>> restart on a modern Unix system - though some things in SCO OSR5
>> require restarts because of the way things are handled in the
>> kernel. Not needed in the UW series.

>Exactly why it reminds me of NT. I'd rather not have to relink a
>kernel/colonel/kernal just to allow more connections/pseudo users.

OSR5 came from a SysVR3 background and parts of that pre-date NT.

I just looked at the copyright on an NT3.5 box on the shelf and it
is 1995 - about the time OSR 5.0 came out.

OTOH a year or so ago on a *n*x system I aliased a new IP from a
different block and provider onto the unit, made sure it worked,
and then removed the original IP.

All while it was running and all without a reboot, or even going
into single user.

That's the way computers should be.

Things are getting better.

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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com