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Subject: Re: Wonderful Windows Zaps Banks/Transport/Media after "Update"
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On 31/07/2024 16:34, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
> The relevant point is that there are (at least a few) large
> organizations running multi-user Unix systems, and care about isolation
> between users.

There are, but they are rare birds.

Most 'multi-user' machines run pure web applications.
I cant offhand think of anything outside say a research super computer 
where true multiuser exists

Anyway their sysdamins are free to set them up how they like, as are we 
on our single user machines


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