"Single user" redirects here. For a product designed for cheapness and short-term convenience rather than medium to long-term durability, see Single use.
Some multi-user operating systems such as Windows versions from the Windows NT family support simultaneous access by multiple users (for example, via Remote Desktop Connection) as well as the ability for a user to disconnect from a local session while leaving processes running (doing work on their behalf) while another user logs into and uses the system. The operating system provides isolation of each user's processes from other users, while enabling them to execute concurrently[dubious – discuss].
The complementary term, single-user, is most commonly used when talking about an operating system being usable only by one person at a time, or in reference to a single-user software license agreement. Multi-user operating systems such as Unix sometimes have a single user mode or runlevel available for emergency maintenance. Examples of single-user operating systems include MS-DOS, OS/2 and Classic Mac OS.
^Red, Edward; Jensen, Gregory; French, David; Weerakoon, Prasad (10 October 2011). Multi-User Architectures for Computer-Aided Engineering Collaboration. 2011 17th International Conference on Concurrent Enterprising, ICE 2011. ResearchGate. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
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Interix in a Multi-User Windows TSE Environment paper about the Unix multi-user model and MS-Windows NT TSE
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