[LINK] RFI: Multi-User Capability on User Machines

Adrian Chadd adrian at creative.net.au
Mon Sep 4 13:52:55 AEST 2006


On Mon, Sep 04, 2006, Roger Clarke wrote:
> I'm trying to phrase a short statement about when multi-user 
> capability became available on PCs.

It depends on your definition of "multiple users."

Desqview supported multiple "users" back in the early 90s, perhaps late
80s; where multiple users was "multiple dialled in users into a BBS."

>From the Unix side: IIRC, 386BSD pre-dates Linux; Xenix pre-dates 
386BSD/Linux.



Adrian




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