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From: "Vincent F. Scarafino" <Scarafino@multics-a.pms.ford.com>
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?)
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 15:00:40 -0500
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> 
> In note <5hcbac$r22@news.gvsu.edu>, behrensm@river.it.gvsu.edu (Matt Behrens)
> writes:
> >Goatboy (lcappite@sprynet.com) wrote:
> >
> >: >    Those willing to give up functionality for ease of use
> >: >    loose both and deserve neither.
> >
> >: What *significant* things can UNIX do that NT4 or 95 can't?
> >
>

One item I'm surprised nobody mentioned--more than one person
cannot log into and use an NT machine at the same time.
It is *NOT* multi-user.

Seems like a significant "thing" to me.