 Re: Win NT - what is it???
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In article <>   writes:

>Somewhere in this thread, it has been said that Windows NT  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. ..






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