Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!rex!rouge!pml From: pml@cacs.usl.edu (Patrick M. Landry) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: OS/2 vs. Unix Message-ID: <5373@rouge.usl.edu> Date: 16 Mar 90 03:13:15 GMT References: <90052.182144CMH117@psuvm.psu.edu> <6937@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM> <16155@smunews.UUCP> <25e6d6ed.26a3@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> <25e85897.57ec@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> <21786@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <27788@cup.port <4475@daffy Sender: anon@rouge.usl.edu Organization: The Center for Advanced Computer Studies, USL Lines: 27 In article <4475@daffy.cs.wisc.edu> schaut@cat9.cs.wisc.edu (Rick Schaut) writes: >In article <90070.224516DLV101@psuvm.psu.edu> DLV101@psuvm.psu.edu (Dwaine VanBibber) writes: >| A lot of people need a multi-user PC!! >Well, give me a for-instance. >One interesting development within the department here at UW is that large >multi-user machines are being replaced by networked workstations with >distributed processing facilities. Where in such an environment do I need >multi-user capabilities? > You need the concept of multiple users as soon as you want to share things. Access permissions kinda rely on the OS having the notion of "other users". This goes for sharing the machines, files, etc. This is one of the biggest problems with networking a bunch of DOS boxes together; its damned hard to share things even though that's what the net is presumably for. >-- >Rick (schaut@garfield.cs.wisc.edu) > >"I'm a theory geek; we use Turing machines!"--Gary Lewandowski pad pad pad pad pad -- patrick pml@cacs.usl.edu