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- From: hochstae@allfiwib1.wiwi.uni-marburg.de (Christoph H. Hochstaetter)
- Subject: Re: NT not multiuser, then Unix is not a competing OS
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.144135.5176@solaris.rz.tu-clausthal.de>
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- Reply-To: hochstae@allfiwib1.wiwi.uni-marburg.de (Christoph H. Hochstaetter)
- Organization: Techn. Univ. Clausthal
- References: <145498@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 14:41:35 GMT
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- In <145498@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> booloo@framsparc.ocf.llnl.gov (Mark Boolootian) writes:
- >In the most recent issue of Corporate Computing there is a very bried overview
- >of Windows NT. One thing which absolutely floored me was their claim that
- >NT is *not* a multiuser system. Is this true? I find it exceedingly hard
- >to imagine this possible.
- >
- >If it is true, then why have I heard so much talk about NT being a threat to
- >the Unix marketplace? A single-user OS might be a threat to Unix in the world
- >of micros, but I don't think Unix has a very large share of that market
- >in the first place. Why would anyone want a single-user OS on a larger
- >platform? And why port NT to platforms based on the Alpha or MIPS chips? Are
- >there small systems being built around these chips which one might to run
- >single-user?
- >
-
- NT is a Multi-User OS. Each process has his own security context. The only
- restriction is, that after you have logged off, you loose the ownership of
- the screen-device. But this is the same on UNIX workstations (e.g.
- SPARCstations), when you log off all windows close.
-
- Christoph
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