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Date:      Thu, 1 Nov 2001 03:15:12 -0800
From:      "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
To:        "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com>, "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Tiny starter configuration for FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <00ca01c162c6$79481ba0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
In-Reply-To: <006b01c162c4$c6597cb0$0a00000a@atkielski.com>

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
>[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Anthony
>Atkielski
>Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 3:03 AM
>To: FreeBSD Questions
>Subject: Re: Tiny starter configuration for FreeBSD
>
>security; they are
>single-user systems, after all.  Windows NT/2000, on the other hand, has
>excellent security, and is designed as a multiuser system.
>

NT is NOT a multiuser system.  It's a multiprocess system.  The only multiuser
functionality it has is if you put Terminal Server, and add-on, onto it.

Just because NT has ACL's and all that doesen't make it multiuser.  If you
were
to claim that it was multiuser just because you can have different ownership
of
files then a Novell Netware server would be multiuser.

UNIX is multiuser because it can have multiple users using user interfaces
into a
UNIX system simultaneously.  Both UNIX and NT can run multiple processes at
the
same time, and serve files over a network to multiple users at the same time,
but NT has no real multiuser capability in it.

Ted Mittelstaedt                                       tedm@toybox.placo.com
Author of:                           The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide
Book website:                          http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com



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