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- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!ieunet!wsl!jja
- From: jja@wsl.ie (John J. Allen)
- Subject: Re: Impressions of Windows NT
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.093454.27114@wsl.ie>
- Organization: Workhorse Systems Limited, Dublin, Ireland
- References: <1992Jul29.112608.8662@fics.uucp>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 09:34:54 GMT
- Lines: 16
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- ekl@fics.uucp writes:
- :
- : NT is not a multiuser system in the sence that several people hook
- : up terminals and use the system simultaneously. However, the system
- : is multiuser in the sence that it can store several different user
- : profiles, and differentiate between them when they use *one*
- : computer at *different* times.
- :
- : In my book, that is not "multi-user", so "flatly wrong" may be a little
- : strong. Anyway, it looks like a nice OS. The user interface is not quite
-
- Although I'm no Windows NT fan I believe it is a multi-user OS but not
- in the traditional sense. I believe that traditional multi-user should
- really be called 'simultaneous multi-user' to indicate that the machine
- knows about multiple users and can also allow them to use the machine
- simultaneously.
-