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August 22, 2011 at 09:30 AM
aw_willis

Single Computer with multiple simultaneous users

by aw_willis . Updated 14 years, 10 months ago

One time I walked into an Internet cafe in Rwanda in Africa and found that users where somehow all simultaneously using the same systems unit but different monitors, keyboards and mice; its like everyone was using a different computer except that none of the users had a systems unit at his or her desk. I noticed this because when I needed to use my memory stick, the attendant had fix it for me on his main computer. This whole thing got me thinking lately that I could probably setup something similar to what they were using in that Internet cafe except that I don’t know what kind of computer that was.
This may sound silly to some of you but I need someone to explain to me what kind of computer system that was and what merits and demerits come with deploying something like that in an Internet cafe of computer training lab.

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