Eric_Hall@f170.n771.z3.fidonet.org (Eric Hall) (05/16/91)
First off, I'm not arguing with you. :> * In a message originally to David Wright, Kevin Lowey said: KL>Actually, this isn't quite true. The entire file system is KL>designed with multiple users in mind. For example, each file KL>has a Read, Write, and Execute permission on it for the KL>Owner, Group, and World. That means you can set up files in So does LAN Manager/Server. And many more, as well as any possible combination of security flags. KL>Unix has support for accounting. Who did what and when, and KL>how much CPU time did they use, how much DISK space, how many KL>printed pages, etc. That way multi-user systems can keep ... KL>Unix has support for quotas on individuals. You can say Joe KL>User can only have at most 1M of disk space, and cannot run KL>jobs at a priority higher than X. Joe can only access these KL>files on the system, and not these other files. Joe can KL>print to the printer, but he cannot get access to the modem KL>to make long-distance calls. All of these functions are available with LM/LS today, with the exception of CPU usage tracking. And Citrix has the same functionality as LM/LS as well, only routed through DigiTalk boards to dumb terminals. KL>There is much more to being multi-user than just having more KL>than one person on the machine at a time. Unix is much KL>better suited to multiple users than OS/2 is. Absolutely. However, Unix is 20 years old, while OS/2 is only 4, and LM/LS is only 3. Also, UNIX was designed for supporting dumb terminals, while OS/2's first priority was supporting intelligent CPUs. The guy who owns Citrix was the " father" of OS/2 at IBM, and he swears up and down that it was designed to support multiple users... Eric . --- * Origin: The Rx Shop 615-646-2842 Nashville TN 9600 HST/V.32 (1:116/5000)