multi-user
Adjective
Meaning
multi-user (not comparable)
Alternative form of multiuser
Examples
Even with the add-on floppy drive, the CoCo did not have a true DOS until third-party operating systems such as TSC FLEX9 (distributed for the CoCo by Frank Hogg Laboratories) and Microware 's multi-user, multi-tasking OS-9 were available.
Early IBM APL interpreters for IBM 360 and IBM 370 hardware implemented their own multi-user management instead of relying on the host services, thus they were timesharing systems in their own right.
In the software context, the relatively simple OSs for early microcomputers were usually inspired by minicomputer OSs (such as CP/M 's similarity to Digital's single user OS/8 and RT-11 and multi-user RSTS time-sharing system).
EXPOSE Location of the astrobiology EXPOSE-E and EXPOSE-R facilities on the International Space Station EXPOSE is a multi-user facility mounted outside the International Space Station dedicated to astrobiology experiments.
Graphical multi-user environments Visual chat rooms add graphics to the chat experience, in either 2D or 3D (employing virtual reality technology).
IBM made some attempt at marketing the AT as a multi-user machine, but it sold mainly as a faster PC for power users.