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	Rex Ballard - Director of Electronic Distribution
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On Fri, 5 Jul 1996, Anthony D. Tribelli wrote:

> A Shelton (ashelton@yallara.cs.rmit.EDU.AU) wrote:
> : adt@netcom.com (Anthony D. Tribelli) writes:
> 
> : 
> :
> : >If you are trying to get to your personal system (end-user workstation) in
> : >order to read news then you are incorrect about needing multiuser. But I
> : >suspect you are describing wanting to use the "big system" that belongs to
> : >the school. In general, when I'm referring to WinNT I'm doing so in a
> : >end-user workstation context. 

It really depends on how the system is configured.  For example, if a user
wishes to host their own newsgroup, they need to function as both a client
(intitiating calls at the user's request), and as a server (listening for,
and excepting calls from other systems).

Part of the distinction "Workstation" is that it functions as a peer to
other workstations and to other servers.  A workstation may have to accept
connections from other systems to receive and deliver information at the
times requested by the host system.  For example, it is a common practice
to have a server that enables "backup" via FTP or rsh/tar.  Of course,
there are different levels of security required, depending on the
environment being used.

> : hey..It's annoy tony time again...
> 
> I'm not easily annoyed, but have fun anyway. ;-)
> 
> : The example clearly demonstrates an advantage of multi-user, you just don't
> : want to see it ...
> 
> Another incorrect guess, I do see the advantage for the school's system, I
> just debate the need of multiuser in the originally described scenario if
> you are only trying to get at your personal system that is at a remote
> location. 

Often, the workstation contains private files which are not available to
the general public.  I may choose to keep files on my workstation that I
don't want delivered to the general public (such as personnel files), but
I want this information backed up.  As a server I can enable selective and
secured connectivity.

When the desired task required on the workstation, is more complex, the
user must be more resourceful.  This is especially true if the workstation
application is a complex interface to a more complex system.  X11 will
enable me to connect to my own host, connect/login, and see the same
graphical interface on my remote machine as I would if I were at my
workstation.  Since the delivery is a simple stream of bytes or small
objects, it is relatively easy to pass them from application to
application.

> Tony
> -- 
> ------------------
> Tony Tribelli
> adtribelli@acm.org
> 
> 
	Rex Ballard



From rballard@cnj.digex.net Fri Jul  5 17:53:41 1996
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