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From: jmck@norge.Eng.Sun.COM (John McKernan)
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Subject: Re: OS/2 is dead?
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Date: 14 Dec 90 22:17:01 GMT
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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.

John McKernan.                                                     
Windows and Graphics Software, Sun Microsystems.                  jmck@sun.com