Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!udel!haven!mimsy!mojo!SYSMGR@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU From: sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: OS/2 is dead? Message-ID: <009412FD.FFC1E4A0@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU> Date: 14 Dec 90 23:57:48 GMT References: <28775@usc> <14887@ogicse.ogi.edu>, <009412E3.68BA67E0@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU>,<4565@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> Sender: news@eng.umd.edu (C-News) Reply-To: sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney) Organization: The U. of MD, CP, CAD lab Lines: 22 In article <4565@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>, jmck@norge.Eng.Sun.COM (John McKernan) writes: >sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney) writes: >>Huh? Why should you want to run multiple users on a PC box? >> >> Doug Mohney, Operations Manager, CAD Lab/ME, Univ. of Maryland College Park > >The fact that the PCs are on a network is one reason. Basically you >want to be able to configure your network anywhere in the range of 'each >machine is only used by one specific person' to 'every user has full >access to all the machines'. A simple and direct way of giving every >user complete access to all machines at all times is having multi-user >machines. In that case, you no longer have a "PERSONAL" computer, but a workstation. Ergo, if you are running a workstation, you need UN*X, not OS/2. Sounds like Apples and Walnuts to me... %%%%% Signature v2.0 %%%%% Doug Mohney, Operations Manager, CAD Lab/ME, Univ. of Maryland College Park * If Apple's pricing strategy had been as exciting as their commercials, * * Windows 3.0 would have never been written *