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Contrast With Single-user Operating Systems

Single-user operating systems simply have a single directory or partitions for all users files, there is no individual directory setup per user (though users can still setup and maintain directories inside this main working directory manually).

  • AmigaOS versions 2 and up have "System" and "Work" partitions on hard disks by default.
  • BeOS (and its successors) have a /home directory which contain the files belonging to the single user of the system.
  • Versions of Windows prior Windows 95 OEM Service Release 2 did not have a user folder, but since that release, \My Documents became in effect the single user's home directory.
  • NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP in a single user, non-networked setup, /me is used, as well as /root when logged in as superuser.

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