Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!erbe.se!prc From: prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: OS/2 is dead? Keywords: OS/2 Message-ID: <1990Dec14.085752.20994@erbe.se> Date: 14 Dec 90 08:57:52 GMT References: <28775@usc> <14887@ogicse.ogi.edu> <5074@trantor.harris-atd.com> <1990Dec13.170613.19556@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> Sender: prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson) Reply-To: prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson) Organization: ERBE DATA AB, Jakobsberg, Sweden Lines: 17 In article , 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. I've used workstations and am currently using an X terminal talking to a bunch of large UNIX machines in a locked computer room. I find it harder and harder to understand why one would want a general purpose computer on the desktop at all. But -- this has very little to do with computer architecture. -- Robert Claeson |Reasonable mailers: rclaeson@erbe.se ERBE DATA AB | Dumb mailers: rclaeson%erbe.se@sunet.se Jakobsberg, Sweden | Perverse mailers: rclaeson%erbe.se@encore.com Any opinions expressed herein definitely belongs to me and not to my employer.