Re: Forms 4.5 (1.4W) with multiuser NT

In article <33D61AB4.547A_at_uswest.com>, "Lance S. Nehring" <lnehrin_at_uswest.com> writes
>
>This is off topic somewhat, but NT is not a multi-user OS. Only one
>person can _login_ and use the CPU for user-level processes at a time.
>What has been suggested will establish 4 services (a.k.a daemons) as
>Oracle listeners. To use more than one of these services
>_at_the_same_time_ would require other installation(s) of Dev/2000
>installed on other box(s) connecting to the listener ports of your
>primary installation. This is multi-tasking of the primary box, not
>multi-user. NT's paradigm is for a single user to sit at the console -
>just like Win3.1 and Win95. It also happens to be able to share file
>and print services like Novell, and other assorted network services like
>UNIX. The multi-tasking in the NT kernel is not designed for multiple
>user shells and there's no provision for additional login shells (or
>even changing your login id within a session).
>
>.....just wanted to clarify, it's an easy point to miss, but is
>fundamental to how you design a development environment.....

Yeah, but Citrix makes your NT box multi-USER, just what we've all been waiting for. Multiple logins, personal shells, protected virtual machines for each user.

Brilliant!

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