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Re:Windows NT for Power Macintosh by Damogran6 on Friday July 12, 2024 @03:06PM (#40948455)
It allows applications to run in different priviledge contexts and allows you inherit privilidges on a network, off the top of my head.

Unless you _want_ your solitare game have the ability to enumerate your contacts and send mail.

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Re:Windows NT for Power Macintosh by pavlov on Friday July 12, 2024 @04:38PM (#40949185)
macOS and iOS use a completely different mechanism to ensure a game doesn’t read my contacts or make network requests. It has nothing to do with Unix-style users.

They could have built that on top of BeOS just as well as on NextStep.

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Re:Windows NT for Power Macintosh by anthk on Friday July 12, 2024 @05:35PM (#40949665)
Unix permissions will allow you do to that perfectly fine.
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