#Multi-user Amiga?
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Don, "If he's not doing something I haven't thought of, that system can be
crashed by either user from either terminal" is very different from "That
system can be crashed by either user from either terminal." I'm unaware of any
way that a clerk can run anything but my application from the terminal on the
serial port. You are invited to try hitting Ctrl-D over the modem and seeing
what it gets you, but I want to make some money from you if it turns out I'm
right.
I also don't mind "that system can be crashed by either user from either
terminal, but he has bet me a reasonable sum of money that I can't crash it,
and I'm not going to take him up on it."
I already have a multi-user Amiga!!!! I have a MIDI converter on my serial
port! Do I get the cash?
BTW it gets pretty hard to hit a ^D or even a lowly ^C (thats ^Y for you VAX
users) from 90 percent of the MIDI keyboards that I have seen. It is also a
poor device to be used in a cash register application 😉
Dan Brookshier
M2S Software Support
Tom,
I don't make bets on blind subjects. Not having seen your application,
I'm not about to make any bet about it.
You asked my opinion about a hypothetical setup (or I presumed it was
hyopthetical)…I have you an answer in that vain. I wasn't speaking of any
one specific application…merely in general.
And I stick by that..in general, if any one user on the Amiga crashes
the system…it all comes down. In UNIX, (other than a superuser) no one user
can crash the entire system. They can core dump to their hearts content and no
other user will be the wiser.
But…NO system is 100% secure and there are things that can be done on
UNIX machines, by general users that will slow down other users to the point
where the waits become painful. I also know of one specific thing that a user
did that didn't stop anyone who was already logged in from continuing
work…but no one else could log in, and once current users logged off, they
couldn't get back in (believe me that one was "fun" to find and fix).
Under equivalent circumstances…I personally will take a UNIX box over
an Amiga for multi-user applications. That's today….tommorow I may change my
mind depending on the state of the system software and/or user software.
Don
Don,
Getting better all the time. That is, if you let me read your statement as "I
personally will take a Unix box, that is more robust when running multiple
users, than an Amiga, which is more dangerous to run multi-user".
🙂
-larry
Larry,
I've never disagreed with that.
Don
Heh heh… well, you had me fooled. 🙂
-larry