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From: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: The Next Generation
Message-ID: <2803@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 17-Nov-87 01:59:51 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 17 01:59:51 1987
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in article <5294@ccicpg.UUCP>, harald@ccicpg.UUCP ( Harald Milne) says:
> Summary: On the mark

> 	Although the Amiga is multitasking, and not multiuser, this is
> an advantage. There is no reason to support the multiuser feature of UNIX
> on the Amiga, simply since it isn't. (After all, it is MY machine)
> I call it multitasking without the excess baggage!

I'm REAL GLAD someone mentioned this too.  Every time someone starts to talk
about how neat it would be to run multiuser stuff on their Personal Computers,
be they Amigas, Macs, or 386 machines, I really start to wonder about that
person.  After all, you buy a Personal Computer so that you can get away from
the overloaded Minis.  And they were bought to get away from the overloaded
Mainframes.  Such computers are cheap enough that you should get more of them
if more folks need access to them.  Want to share resources, hook them up to
a LAN.  But don't run lots of people on a poor Amiga, or even a future real
powerful Amiga.  These things cost less today than many a VT100-type terminal
did a few years ago.  And you can get the VT100 emulator for free.  So don't
multi-user, even if it's possible.  Think of it as you think of IBM or C64
emulators -- they're neat in concept, and are cool to show off to your
friends.  But you don't really want to use them for anything more than that.
Multiuser is the same kind of thing.  If you can't use all the power of your
Personal Computer yourself, get a cheaper PC.