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From: herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com (daniel lance herrick)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: OS/2 is dead?
Message-ID: <2436.27689f46@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com>
Date: 14 Dec 90 14:45:41 GMT
References: <28775@usc> <14887@ogicse.ogi.edu> <5074@trantor.harris-atd.com> <1990Dec13.170613.19556@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <Dec.13.15.26.01.1990.22374@pilot.njin.net>
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In article <Dec.13.15.26.01.1990.22374@pilot.njin.net>, gould@pilot.njin.net (Brian Jay Gould) writes:
> I can't understand why someone would want multi-user support on their desktop
> workstation.  Giving the input-focus window top CPU priority makes a lot of
> sense to me.  I don't want to login to my workstation, and I certainly don't
> want other users logging into my workstation through the network.

Logging in to my workstation gives me some assurance about what
happened while I was away from the workstation.

Allowing another to login over the network permits the class of
solutions represented by UUCP.  There may be other solutions
to that set of problems, but UUCP is a well established, mature
solution that probably has half its security holes closed.

Even DECnet nft uses login machinery to establish my right
to see the files that I am copying out or my right to write
files where I want to put them.

dan herrick
herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com