Two different users on the same machine

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Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 14:56 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
>> On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 09:47 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 09:08 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 22:58 +0100, Paul Smith wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 1:36 AM, Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
>>>>> wrote:
<snip> [[ really poc ]]

>> In the environment where I used to system administrate it was common to
>> have 2, 3, 4 ,maybe 10 users using the computer at the same time.

and in such an environment as;

> 16 at a time on my first Unix system, a PDP-11/45 with 256KB of main
> memory (yes folks, K, not M or G). Worked great too.

pdp-11/45 os was designed for such, as were my cromemco boxes.

such as this can be done under linux today. it is termed 'multi-head,
multi-seat', as noted in my 1st reply in this thread.


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tc,hago.

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in a free world without fences, who needs gates.

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