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From: barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Amiga OS *IS* state of the art
Message-ID: <7840@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Date: 27 Mar 91 21:00:47 GMT
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>I wrote:
>>        For example, [the Amiga OS] doesn't have:
>>                -       Multi-user capabilities

In article <1991Mar27.062345.6622@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au> l-tarantello@adfa.oz.au (Luke Tarantello) writes:
>I agree except for the last point. I don't think that the Amiga needs to 
>be multi-user. As an example, a SPARC 2 is nice and fast - until 6 or so 
>people are logged in (ie the perceived performance per user is degraded)! 

	That's a different issue:  SIMULTANEOUS multiple users.  I would
still argue that, for an OS to be "state of the art" (as was claimed by the
original poster), it has to have some concept of file ownership; a multiple
user model in which a user "owns" a file.

	If my friend sits down at my Amiga and works for a while, I want
reassurance that he cannot accidently delete my files, NO MATTER WHAT.
This is what I mean by "multi-user capabilities" -- that several people can
use the same Amiga (not necessarily at the same time) and nobody has to
worry about corrupting another person's data.

	I claim that an OS without this feature is not "state of the art".
That's all I'm claiming -- no more, no less.

                                                        Dan

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