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From: madd@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Jim Frost)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Is UNIX(TM) Multi-User?
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Date: 24 Aug 88 22:06:12 GMT
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In article <4871@netnews.upenn.edu> spolsky@eniac.seas.upenn.edu.UUCP (Joel Spolsky) writes:
|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:
[...]
|  --the system assumes one keyboard, one mouse, and one monitor, and 
|    probably (I dont know this) assumes that the monitor is mapped
|    into main memory.

It's possible to change the video driver to work with anything but the
supplied drivers certainly want video buffer access.

jim frost
madd@bu-it.bu.edu