Re: Sharing the Family PC is Patent-Pending

[Rahul Dhesi]

dan@tobias.name (Daniel R. Tobias) writes:

>Aren't all the mainframe timesharing systems, some of which were
>around 30 or 40 years ago, which maintain separate user sessions each
>with their own environment, prior art for this?  As I recall, the APL
>system actually called saved environments "workspaces".

But implementing this in a Microsoft operating system is a "new use",
don't you think?
-- 
Rahul