Is UNIX(TM) Multi-User?

[Jim Frost]

In article <4871 at netnews.upenn.edu> spolsky at eniac.seas.upenn.edu.UUCP (Joel Spolsky) writes:
|Right! For example, OS/2 (ack barf) is a multitasking operating system
|that will never work very well for multiple users, simply because the
|assumption that there is only one user is so pervasive:
[...]
|  --the system assumes one keyboard, one mouse, and one monitor, and 
|    probably (I dont know this) assumes that the monitor is mapped
|    into main memory.

It's possible to change the video driver to work with anything but the
supplied drivers certainly want video buffer access.

jim frost
madd at bu-it.bu.edu