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- From: gary@nshade.uah.ualberta.ca (Gary Ritchie)
- Subject: Re: NT not multiuser, then Unix is not a competing OS
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.190010.5522@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
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- Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
- References: <1993Jan11.144135.5176@solaris.rz.tu-clausthal.de>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 19:00:10 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan11.144135.5176@solaris.rz.tu-clausthal.de> >
- > 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.
- >
- So, when you walk up to a NT machine, do you log on? Can you log on from
- remote machines while someone else is logged on to the console? Does NT
- have a "command line"? Does the filesystem have user ownership / execute
- / read / write permissions? I'm just wondering; I haven't seen NT yet.
-
- Gary Ritchie
-