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From: kudla@rpi.edu (Robert J. Kudla)
Subject: Re: Amiga OS *IS* state of the art
In-Reply-To: barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU's message of 27 Mar 91 21:00:47 GMT
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Date: 27 Mar 91 21:38:36 GMT
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In article <7840@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett) writes:

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

Okay - but I claim that a personal computer OS doesn't need
file/process ownership, security, or any of the junk Unix, VMS, etc
have to allow multiple users.  A friend and I were trying to kludge
out a little bit of multiuser functionality once just for fun since we
were sharing a computer, but realized it was really pretty unnecessary
when people can't be simultaneously using it.

Once you put one in an educational or corporate environment you need
multiuser capability, but I daresay in such an environment it's no
longer a personal computer.....