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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Multiuser is NOT expensive
	Re: Amiga OS *IS* state of the art
Message-ID: <1991Apr5.004509.2651@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX
References: <7827@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> <8806@gollum.twg.com> <1991Mar30.181349.1773@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1991 00:45:09 GMT

Multiuser protection does *not* cost a lot of code, *or* a lot of CPU.
Consider that PDP-11 UNIX had it in the '70s, when the total size of the
kernel was limited by hardware to 64K and there were variants that actually
ran with 64K total, and with a sub-8088-class CPU. The code bloat in UNIX
is due to creeping featurism, not resource management nor multiuser
protection.
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
<peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.
