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From: gwyn@smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Is UNIX(TM) Multi-User?
Message-ID: <8368@smoke.ARPA>
Date: 20 Aug 88 20:38:44 GMT
References: <880@taux01.UUCP> <213@bhjat.UUCP> <1640@uop.edu> <Aug.12.22.31.31.1988.1843@topaz.rutgers.edu> <404@cpro.UUCP> <15287@shemp.CS <365@pigs.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <365@pigs.UUCP> haugj@pigs.UUCP (Joe Bob Willie) writes:
>is unix REALLY a multi-user operating system?  or does it just act that way?

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, ...
If you don't define your terms, how are we expected to be able to
understand your question?  The answer has to be yes, a multi-user
OS really is a multi-user OS.

>i recall reading once that dennis didn't consider unix
>to even be an operating system.

This is a funnier UNIX joke than 99% of the ones recently posted.