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From: ugmiker@sunybcs.uucp (Michael Reilly)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: The Next Generation
Message-ID: <6599@sunybcs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 17-Nov-87 19:27:24 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 17 19:27:24 1987
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In article <516@mcdsun.UUCP> fnf@mcdsun.UUCP (Fred Fish) writes:
>In article <2803@cbmvax.UUCP> daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) writes:
>>in article <5294@ccicpg.UUCP>, harald@ccicpg.UUCP ( Harald Milne) says:
>>> 	Although the Amiga is multitasking, and not multiuser,........
>>> 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,
>>  [stuff deleted...fnf]
>>Multiuser is the same kind of thing.  If you can't use all the power of your
>>Personal Computer yourself, get a cheaper PC.
>
>Well, in general I agree with the premise that a personal computer should
>be allocated to a single individual, but this really doesn't mean that
>having multiuser capabilities isn't useful. 
			.
			.[stuff deleted about sun logins ]
			.
>Thus just because the computer has multiuser capabilities doesn't mean
>that you have to have more than one user active at a time.
>
>-Fred

		Fred, wouldn't this really be equal to bootoing up with 
a different "startup-sequence" each time you want to "protect" yourself??
Or even better, just have a different ".login" sourced for each different 
"person" you want to be :-)...  This way, you can have, lets say 3 shells 
running 3 different "people", but all you, and all with different protection
levels, and priority setups....

				when you use the sun with different "people"
do you usually have more than one of these logged on at a time, or just 
different windows, you open or close depending on how much protection you   
want , or how much of the system you want to limit yourself from messing up :-).

		"Multiusing" is cool, and good, but it is nice to have an amiga
all to myself...

						mike

p.s. I have a few different people using my amiga, a programmer, a person who
	uses it as a terminal, a person who uses it as a game machine, and a 
	person who gets on it and HACKS... and they all are me..... just 
	differenet disks to boot up with....



	
Michael (what am I wood??) Reilly  
University of Buffalo Computer Science       
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