Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!vortex!lauren@rand-unix From: lauren%rand-unix@vortex.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: multi-user on PC Message-ID: <16529@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Tue, 7-Feb-84 16:09:29 EST Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.16529 Posted: Tue Feb 7 16:09:29 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Feb-84 06:44:25 EST Lines: 14 When looking at multi-user operations on a machine w/o memory protection like the IBM-PC, it's important to note what the users are doing. If development work capable of crashing the system is going on, then obviously you need to be careful -- though in practice I've found that only pretty serious (and uncommon) disasters can crash the entire system (the user himself/herself who wrote the offending code is more likely to hang themselves, not the system.) On the other hand, for text editing/ word processing and other "canned" applications programs, there are no problems (this includes all electronic mail functions, uucp, etc.) Especially from the C compilers, you have to make a real effort to crash the system. --Lauren--