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   Adam Leventhal (ahl@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Nov-2023 06:29:56 JST Adam Leventhal

   I was listening to a podcast that implied that the multi user model of an operating system, as conceived by Multics in UNIX hasn’t really panned out the way that people imagined. In particular, I see that most operating system instances have effectively a single user. What do people think about that?

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     feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Thursday, 16-Nov-2023 06:29:55 JST feld

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     • Farce Majeure
     @vathpela @ahl only one human user, but many non-human user accounts to separate privileges
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     Farce Majeure (vathpela@better.boston)'s status on Thursday, 16-Nov-2023 06:29:56 JST Farce Majeure

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     @ahl Most of the systems running them fit in a pocket, of course they only have one user.