On 12/10/2014 11:22 PM, Bret Busby wrote:
I make the point that the term is a malapropism. Not that it is
invalid. A car central computer, which performs functions like heating
the seats, and, determining which seats are occupied, to illuminate
"seatbelt not fastened on seat <position indicator>", are "multi-seat
computers" ; computers that do not include, provide, or, service,
seating, or, otherwise, interface directly, with the things upon which
people sit, are, surely not correctly to be named, "multi-seat
computers", are they?
Hence, is the term, in the context that it has been otherwise used in
this thread, to refer instead, to multi-user computers, not a
malapropism?
Was the term misused earlier in the thread?
Multiseat computer refers to a specific type of set up....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiseat_configurationhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiseat_configuration
In the same way that all cars are automobiles, but not all automobiles
are cars.
All multiseat computers are multiuser, but not all multiuser computers
are multiseat.
Later, Seeker
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