From: ken@austin.ibm.com
Subject: Re: Win NT - what is it???
Originator: ken@daedalus.austin.ibm.com
Organization: IBM Austin
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In article <C5qoFw.3AA@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:
> In article <2BCF2664.3C6A@deneva.sdd.trw.com> reimert@.etdesg.trw.com (Scott P. Reimert) writes:
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> >Somewhere in this thread, it has been said that Windows NT (tm) is a 
> >multi-user OS, as well as multi-threading, etc.  I certainly haven't
> >seen this to be the case.  There are seperate accounts for each person,
> >and even seperate directories if that is desired.  I don't see an 
> >implentation of simultaneuos use though.
> 
> Since running any GUI over a network is going to slow it down by a
> fair amount, I expect Windows NT will be multiuser only in the sense
> of sharing filesystems. Someone will likely write a telnetd for it so
> one could run character-based apps, but graphics-based apps will have
> to be shared by running the executables on the local CPU. This is how
> things are shaping up everywhere: client-server architectures are
> taking over from the old cpu-terminal setups. 
> 
> Note that the NeXT does this: you can always telnet into a NeXT and
> run character-based apps but you can't run the GUI. (Yeah, I know
> about X-Windows, just haven't been too impressed by it...)..
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I read this in an electronic "magazine" about NT:

"And for all the hoopla about NT, one would
think the thing would be multi-user but it's not. It supports
only one user at a time. It can support multiple clients but
only one actual user."


Your mileage may vary!

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