Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Is UNIX(TM) Multi-User? Message-ID: <11967@steinmetz.ge.com> Date: 24 Aug 88 20:22:56 GMT References: <880@taux01.UUCP> <213@bhjat.UUCP> <1640@uop.edu> <404@cpro.UUCP> <15287@shemp.CS <365@pigs.UUCP> <11945@steinmetz.ge.com> <4871@netnews.upenn.edu> Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY Lines: 20 In article <4871@netnews.upenn.edu> spolsky@eniac.seas.upenn.edu.UUCP (Joel Spolsky) writes: | In article <11945@steinmetz.ge.com| davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes: | | In article <365@pigs.UUCP> haugj@pigs.UUCP (Joe Bob Willie) writes: [ joe's question, my answer, joel's agreement with me ] | Right! For example, OS/2 (ack barf) is a multitasking operating system | that will never work very well for multiple users, simply because the | assumption that there is only one user is so pervasive: [ good reason's not to run OS/2 on your VAX ] One other which comes to mind: processes are allowed to diddle their own priority. I like the idea, but only if I'm the only one allowed to use it! -- bill davidsen (wedu@ge-crd.arpa) {uunet | philabs | seismo}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me