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We had waited with baited breath for the Unix version but after finding out it was not going to really take any advantage of the OS it was ported to we dropped it like a bad habit and wrote our own unix based system that would toss a user out to the back-ended 6.25 systems on an as-needed basis ...

Heh,

I'm having flashbacks to 1994 when we front-ended our Version 6.25 machines w/ 5 cooperative sparc 20's to bust through the simultaneous user limit.

I just did a quick src mod to create the user account on the fly on the gcomm side with information passed through a special encoded userid ...

A 'Hello' goes out to Mike M. and Rob M. and anyone else I may have talked to while working tech support from Fall 91 through Summer 93 @ Gcomm.

-Chris K.