Simon Burge drunkenly mumbled...
> 
> Traditionally, NetBSD follows what other OSs on the host hardware did.

which is probably the "least incorrect" although i maybe would have chosen to
keep consitancy across all ports it's probably best not to fight the ROMs.

> In DEC's case you need a flag to singify multi-user, but there's a

any reason for this?  or just "the way DEC thought it should be"

> handful of pmaxs (at least 5100 and 5500) that default to multi-user and
> use "-s" for single-user.  Go figure :-)

i've given up trying to understand and have since moved on to acceptance. :)

thanks again for all the help guys.

-brian