Re: Sharing the Family PC is Patent-Pending

[Bernd Jendrissek]

In article <barmar-931773.12140207052004@comcast.ash.giganews.com> Barry
Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>In article <409bd25d@news.peakpeak.com>,
> Bruce Hayden <nospam-bhayden@ieee.org> wrote:
>> Haven't looked at the application, but I would be surprised that
>> if just that much was new and nonobvious.  Seems like Mac
>> and UNIX have had such for awhile.
>
>The part about fast switching between users has been in MacOS for a 
>couple of years, but I don't think Unix has it at all (su changes the 
>userid, but it doesn't bring up the new user's desktop environment).

Linux + XFree86:

Ctrl+Alt+F1/F2/F3...

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