> A plan9 terminal can run programs, and can have a local storage file > system, with multiple users.
i think this is misleading. while the fs running on the terminal can have multiple users, it is not true that you can have multiple users using the cpu resources of a terminal concurrently. you can have all that and auth if you run a single machine with a cpu kernel with the downside that if you use the console you must be eve. since it's easy to get small, cheep, low-power machines, i run a traditional terminal with a seperate auth and fs. - erik
