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From: goldman@mbcl.rutgers.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Multiuser OS/2
Message-ID: <447.283b9967@mbcl.rutgers.edu>
Date: 23 May 91 14:28:54 GMT
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In article <9105231120.AA92755@f170.n771.z3.fidonet.org>, Steve_Lesner@f170.n771.z3.fidonet.org (Steve Lesner) writes:
>  KL> There is no equivalent to this in OS/2.  The closest you can come is OS/
> 2 
>  KL> on a LAN, in which files CAN have this setup.  I suppose someone could 
> 
> In fact, VERY CLOSE.
> 
>  KL> There are many other examples of how Unix has the multiuser support 
> built 
>  KL> in, whereas OS/2 doesn't and needs to rely on non-standard third party 
>  KL> utilities. For example, Unix gives FULL access to the operating system 
>  KL> to multiple users.  A BBS program only gives users a menu-driven front 
>  KL> end.  If you pop out of the BBS to the command prompt, you get full run 
>  KL> of every file on the computer.  
> 
> Or you could write an app that gave them the same capabilites Unix does.  
> But naturally, Unix does do this better because most all of the core apps 
> come with built in support for RS-232 connects regardless of if its a modem 
> or direct connect attached.  With direct screen writing programs, unless you 
> use something like OS2YOU (a Carbon copy type program), an OS/2 user 
> connecting via a modem is #hit out of luck!  But what it really boils down 
> to are the methods we programmers for DOS and OS/2 use to program our 
> applications.  For the longest time, we keep thinking 1 user, 1 machine.  
> Its time for all software developers to think about their applications and 
> optimize them to run in various scenarios (such as a modem connection in a 
> multi-user mode).

There are at least two programs (I forget the names) that are supposed to
turn os/2 into a true multiuser operating system.  Of course, you can only
do character mode apps, because you don't have the bandwidth across a serial
line interface to do PM, but it is multiuser.  I remember seeing reviews of
them in PC magazine and Byte.

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