Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1a 12/4/83; site rlgvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!seismo!rlgvax!guy From: guy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: Unix on the IBM PC? Message-ID: <1660@rlgvax.UUCP> Date: Sat, 4-Feb-84 19:07:59 EST Article-I.D.: rlgvax.1660 Posted: Sat Feb 4 19:07:59 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Feb-84 03:33:51 EST References: <112@mst.UUCP> Organization: CCI Office Systems Group, Reston, VA Lines: 17 > So, my question is, what about PC/IX, and other versions for the PC. > Has anybody had experiences with these that would support or contradict > my feeling that the PC is a totally unsuitable environment for a > "real" multi-user Unix, especially if it is intended as a development > system?? Well, the same complaint could be leveled against any other OS on any unprotected computer like the PC. The PC may be messy for a multi-user system, but there's nothing wrong or unnatural about a single-user UNIX system. Protection is useful in a multi-user system to keep one user from stepping over other users, but if the other users can put up with it it's not a problem (remember, the original PDP-11/20 UNIX, I believe, was a multi- user system which provided no protection). It's all a question of how much you're willing to put up with. Guy Harris {seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!rlgvax!guy