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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(a)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.
g
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in a free world without fences, who needs gates.
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