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Starting with the basics, I don't think BeOS even supported multiple users, permissions, access control, etc. I did play around with it in the mid-1990's and re

Starting with the basics, I don't think BeOS even supported multiple users, permissions, access control, etc. I did play around with it in the mid-1990's and recall it had none of this. Perhaps this changed in later versions. But NeXT, other Unix OSes, and NT were far ahead in that regard.

wmf 5y ago
Desktop users didn't need any of that.
- icedchai 5y ago
  Maybe in 1990. As soon as you start networking your systems in an office network, you do. Keeping your personal files separate from the OS/system files is also a good practice in general, to prevent accidental corruption, etc.