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- From: drl@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (David R. Linn)
- Subject: Re: Windows NT
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- Organization: Vanderbilt University School of Engineering, Nashville, TN, USA
- References: <C0C2Aw.K9@vuse.vanderbilt.edu> <50981@shamash.cdc.com>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 02:08:32 GMT
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- In article <50981@shamash.cdc.com> gsa@easyaspi.udev.cdc.com (gary s anderson) writes:
- >In article <C0C2Aw.K9@vuse.vanderbilt.edu>, drl@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (David R. Linn) writes:
- >|>
- >|> Including multiple users costs effort and if NT is positioned as a
- >|> single-user, mulit-tasking system, why would MS expend that effort?
- >|> Supporting multiple users requires the concept of multiple users be a
- >|> part of the system design from the word "Go".
- >
- >I think a problem with this thread is understanding the difference
- >between: "single user" versus "one user at a time".
-
- We are in violent agreement here. I'm using multi-user to mean
- that the operating system supports the concept of multiple, independent
- users, each of whom can have different access rights to system resources.
- Someone earlier in this thread made the claim NT supports this concept.
- I expressed surprise since this seems contrary to what I have read about
- NT and I asked for references that would tell me more about this, hopefully
- in an authoritative manner.
-
- >|> To me, the lack of multiple users is a serious deficiency. In fact,
- >|> it seems to me that lack of a distinction between the system privilege
- >|> level, the super-user privilege level, and the regular user privilege
- >|> level is a significant factor in the propagation of viruses in the
- >|> personal computer world.
- >
- >Maybe you should look at NT and see if it solves the deficiencies
- >you have just listed. If not, comment constructively on what is missing.
- >
- >
- >Disclaimer: I have no affiliation with Microsoft. I have read the
- >various documents and have been experimenting with the beta
- >version of NT.
-
- I'd love to "look at NT", but I don't have access to NT at this point.
- (This may change in the very near future.) My primary goal in joining
- this discussion was to find out what "documents" I should read.
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