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Multi-user operating systems allow multiple users to utilize a computer and run programs at the equivalent instance. Whole time-sharing systems are multi-user systems, however virtually all batch processing systems for mainframes were too, to stay away from allowing a expensive CPU idle while it waited for I/O operations to complete.

A virtually all perceptible lesson occurs as Unix server where multiple remote users keep close at hand access (via Telnet) to the Unix shell prompt at the equivalent period.

A paired term only-user is virtually all commonnly utilized once talking just about an Operating System being usuable only by 1 individual at once, or even within information to a single-user software license agreement.

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Immersive Systems, Inc.
Home of Meme: extensible networked virtual reality software.

Activeworlds
3D virtual reality chat plugin software and servers. Design worlds, chat with friends, play games.

OzGate
A site running several DigitalSpace Traveler worlds.

Dive
An Internet-based distributed multi-user VR system, developed by researchers at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science since 1991.

Contact Consortium
A research and trade association for virtual worlds, avatars, virtual community. Organizer of yearly Avatars conference.

Cybertown
A popular and long-running web-based multiuser world, using VRML and Blaxxun browser software. Chat, and use objects.

Virtual Object System / Internet Virtual Reality
A software infrastructure for distributed object-oriented programming. The primary application for VOS is a multiuser virtual environment run by many interconnected clients.

Goonietown
A Blaxxun Contact-based 3D multi-user chat community. Users can create worlds or hold a community job.

DigitalSpace Corporation
Software and world development company. Also home to Traveler online community.

VRMLWorld.net
A portal to various VRML worlds, with multiuser chatting via VNet+. Free to use and to add your own worlds. Works best with IE and Blaxxun Contact.


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