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<H1><A NAME="SECTION001010000000000000000">What's an account?</A></H1>
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When a computer is used by many people it is usually
necessary to differentiate between the users, for
example, so that their private files can be kept
private. This is important even if the computer can
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There's more to a user than just a name, however. An
<b>account</b> is all the files, resources, and
information belonging to one user. The term hints at
banks, and in a commercial system each account usually
has some money attached to it, and that money vanishes
at different speeds depending on how much the user
stresses the system. For example, disk space might have
a price per megabyte and day, and processing time might
have a price per second.
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<I>Lars Wirzenius <BR>
Sat Nov 15 02:32:11 EET 1997</I>
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