VirtualLarry
No Lifer
There was once a program called "MagicTwin", that accompanied several JetWay motherboards. It allowed multiple users to log into Windows XP at the same time. It required a dual-head video card, and multiple (generally, USB) keyboards and mice. It reprogrammed XP in such a way that it allowed multiple WindowsStations, each with their associated I/O (display/input) hardware on the machine.
Thus the end result - multiple users can use the same PC at once, even down to playing multi-player LAN games on the same box!
Sadly, I haven't seen any comparible software marketed, and now with the proliferation of multi-core CPU systems, each user could effectively have their own dedicated CPU core too.
In fact, this would have been the *perfect* capability to advertise for Vista, perhaps limited to "Ultimate", as "multi-user logins supported".
So what happened to this technology, and why hasn't it become more popular?
Edit: Perhaps Symantec would be interested in releasing such a product? Call it "DualPC".
MagicTwin
http://www.jetwaycomputer.com/mtinfo.html
Apparently the MagicTwin software was acquired by Ncomputing.
http://www.ncomputing.com/ncomputing/index.php
Review
http://www.tomshardware.com/2004/11/19/jetway/
Thus the end result - multiple users can use the same PC at once, even down to playing multi-player LAN games on the same box!
Sadly, I haven't seen any comparible software marketed, and now with the proliferation of multi-core CPU systems, each user could effectively have their own dedicated CPU core too.
In fact, this would have been the *perfect* capability to advertise for Vista, perhaps limited to "Ultimate", as "multi-user logins supported".
So what happened to this technology, and why hasn't it become more popular?
Edit: Perhaps Symantec would be interested in releasing such a product? Call it "DualPC".
MagicTwin
http://www.jetwaycomputer.com/mtinfo.html
Apparently the MagicTwin software was acquired by Ncomputing.
http://www.ncomputing.com/ncomputing/index.php
Review
http://www.tomshardware.com/2004/11/19/jetway/