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- From: pjdm@chmeee.enet.dec.com (Peter Mayne)
- Subject: Re: NT not multiuser, then Unix is not a competing OS
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.031254.14628@ryn.mro4.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- References: <1993Jan8.194335.21272@koko.csustan.edu> <0T5DVB1w165w@gnct.com>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 03:12:54 GMT
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- In article <0T5DVB1w165w@gnct.com>, garyng@gnct.com (Gary Ng) writes:
- >NT is not multiuser in the sense that it do not allow more than 1 person to
- >logon and use it simultaneously(in the way one logon to unix or ibm mainframe).
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- Despite the fact that telnet servers have been/are being written for NT that
- allow just that?
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- >NT is multiuser in the sense that it can act as a file server/database server
- >etc. since it has LM in the OS(though it is not working right now).
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- I must admit that I've never seen multiuser defined to mean "can file serve
- more than one PC".
- Not working? Windows for Workgroups works fine with it as far as I know.
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- One of these days I'll write an "Is NT Multiuser?" document.
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- PJDM
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