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- From: apl@world.std.com (Anthony P Lawrence)
- Subject: Re: Windows NT
- Message-ID: <C05822.HDy@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
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- References: <1992Dec31.194540.4102@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 21:37:14 GMT
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- mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
- :
- : 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.
-
- So... any reason that a third party couldn't write a logon program
- that was intended to display on a dumb terminal? Or is the GUI stuff
- too interwound with everything??
-
- That's what I can't figure out from what I've read so far...
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