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- From: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (J. D. McDonald)
- Subject: Re: OS/2 Needs a Supervisor mode!
- References: <1992Aug14.031238.18568@msi.com> <1992Aug15.011002.25592@microsoft.com> <1992Aug15.230755.14630@chpc.utexas.edu> <1992Aug16.001819.14010@unixg.ubc.ca>
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- Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 01:08:18 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug16.001819.14010@unixg.ubc.ca> ochealth@unixg.ubc.ca (ochealth) writes:
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- >Well, some people have complained about OS/2 not having multiuser capabilities
- >out of the box, but I think IBM should include a "Supervisor" or "root"
- >mode, and a "User" mode as a bare minimum. A "restricted" mode would also
- >be nice.
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- You want Unix, or, even better, VMS or an IBM or Unisys mainframe operating
- system.
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- You know where to find them.
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- Don't ask to saddle OS/2 with overhead that lots of people don't care about.
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- Doug McDonald
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