However, as the original model of the Mac was a single-user system, the developers had made a fateful choice to share certain important bits of data between the applications and the system libraries.
The display list was kept on the host, and interactivity was good since updates were rapidly reflected in the display-at the cost of reducing most machines to a single-user system.
Those are considered to be high-end personal computers and single-user systems.
A minicomputer is a class of multi-user computers that lies in the middle range of the computing spectrum, in between the largest multi-user systems and the smallest single-user systems.
An online service may contain an electronic bulletin board, but the term "BBS" is reserved for independent dialup, microcomputer-based services that are usually single-user systems.
Windows 9x is designed as a single-user system.
A single-user system is programmed with the assumption that only one person will ever need to edit the project plan at once.
The group believes that its collective strength will make it second in the software queue behind only Sun Microsystems Inc with its 141,000 seats to Sun's estimated 241,000 single-user systems.
Although the implementation of the paths as scripts is satisfactory for single-user systems, there are problems with sharing of the path data in multi-user environments.
They are considered high-end personal computers and single-user systems.