| WHAT'S WRONG WITH VISOPSYS?
What follows is a description of some issues that I perceive as problems with the
current version of Visopsys, explanations of why they're problems, and basic plans for
addressing them.
VISOPSYS IS CURRENTLY LIMITED TO SINGLE-USER
OPERATION
Although Visopsys is able to multi-task very well (i.e. a sound foundation for
multiple users accessing the system at once), there is still no practical implementation
of multi-user support. Multi-user capabilities have been planned from the
beginning, and all of the existing code is written with this in mind; however without
networking support there is no real way to use Visopsys other than from the local console.
Additionally, although users are asked to provide a login name, in its current
form Visopsys is not able to perform user authentication with passwords.
User authentication may be added for the initial public release (version 0.1), but
will more like appear in version 0.2. Networking support will be added for version
0.2 (possibly 0.3). Multi-user capability will appear in conjunction with
networking.
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