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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: Windows NT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.194540.4102@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <1992Dec30.181456.7768@elegant.com> <C03I3E.10C@world.std.com> <C04x4q.17E@vuse.vanderbilt.edu>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 19:45:40 GMT
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- In <C04x4q.17E@vuse.vanderbilt.edu> drl@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (David R. Linn) writes:
-
- >In article <C03I3E.10C@world.std.com> apl@world.std.com (Anthony P Lawrence) writes:
- >>rstory@elegant.com (Robert Story) writes:
- >>:
- >>: My understanding (which is very little, indeed) is only from press
- >>: reports. However, I thought that NT was only a single user system and
- >>: as such would only make use of the console. Ergo, why would one
- >>: require support for dumb terminals ???
- >>
- >>Well, no, it's not single user. NT seems (from my reading) to
- >>be quite capable of supporting remote logons.
-
- >That's odd. Everything I've heard on this topic says that NT
- >is a single-user, multi-tasking OS. Can you give references to
- >materials that say otherwise?
-
- NT supports multiple users, but the software required to log them in
- isn't part of NT (so they currently must either be at the console or
- submit remote-style jobs). In other words, NT out of the box is a
- single-user-at-a-time multi-user-distributed-processing multi-tasking
- OS. If you don't believe that, ask Microsoft. The contention is that
- third parties will provide the login programs required to allow remote
- machines running Windows to log in over a network.
-
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