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From: chari@nueces.cactus.org (Chris Whatley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Third Party Software Pricing
Message-ID: <1989Dec5.170445.6677@nueces.cactus.org>
Date: 5 Dec 89 17:04:45 GMT
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izumi@violet.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) writes:

>In article <5725@umd5.umd.edu> feldman@umd5.umd.edu (Mark Feldman) writes:
>>In article <1989Dec4.015422.21768@agate.berkeley.edu> izumi@violet.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) writes:
>Yes, I know that is the usual definition, but to me ANY 
>computer that is primarily used by one person at a time IS
>a personal computer.
>Most of the Apps which make NeXT unique; WriteNow, Mathematica with
>front end, Edit, Mail, FrameMaker, WorkSpace Manager can be used
>by only one person at the console.
>For these applications, NeXT is single-user.
>So are Suns, Decs as far as the nice windowing applications are
>concerned.  Thus, they are personal computers.
>FTP, NFS, rlogin, mail services don't count
>as multi-user to my eyes.

Exactly what aspect of the NeXT's application set is not multiuser. I
frequently (much to the chagrin of whoever is using the console) run
remote NeXT apps on a local NeXT (ever heard of the '-NXHost' option).
Of course, with any decent windowing system, you can do this (X for
instance).

Also, the school's encore I use does not have a windowing console and
the only people who use it usually rlogin to it. If there are 500
people on at any given time(ftp-ing, reading files on NFS mounted
filesystems and reading mail perhaps), I think it quaifies as
multi-user just like a NeXT qualifies as multi-user when there are two
people using it.

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Chris Whatley
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