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MagicTwin SFF Barebone System
A Digitally Focused Media Center System
Introduction
The MiniQ MagicTwin series barebone system is the world’s
first multi-user enabled SFF solution available in the market.
The special designed 2-user-system allows two users to share
the computing power of a single PC system. With integrated
circuitry onboard, the MagicTwin® barebone comes with
innovative software, the MagicTwin, allowing 2 users to
be connected to it and runs up to two (2) stations directly
from it simultaneously. The unique and copyright-protected
technology enables each of the 2 users to feel like having
himself his own Windows-XP computer. Each user needs to
have himself his own keyboard, mouse, sound device, and
monitor. All remaining PC hardware are shared, even the
IP.
Both users can operate on their own station concurrently,
similar to the operation on a standard PC, the Windows applications
to create and edit documents, to do web surfing, to access
email, just to name a few. There is no obvious delay because
of the Time-slicing/Multiplexing technology built-in. Each
user gets an exact and extremely short defined moment to
access to the PC system, devices, applications and Windows
itself. Resources are only claimed for nanoseconds at a
time. Both users get from Windows and the PC, what they
really need when they need it! The MagicTwin solution turns
the single PC into a cost-effective multi-user system.
The setup is intuitive and easy. In only a few minutes,
users can install and start using their new workstation.
No network administrator is needed as everything to network
the workstations together is done automatically with the
MagicTwin software. You can add immediately additional user
station to the single system and turn one PC into two.
MagicTwin in the Internet and Email
Using MagicTwin, every user can access the Internet in the
same manner as with a single PC and operates his own email
account under Outlook Express. To do this, you must install
the corresponding communication hardware (modem, ADSL, or
ISDN) according to the system requirements, select an Internet
provider and then proceed according to the Windows description.
Advantage
Reduced TCO (Total Cost of Ownership)
1. MagicTwin (technically) runs with only one single Windows-XP
Installation and license.
2. Two users operate simultaneously with single system and
share the same processor, system memory, and so on through
MagicTwin.
3. No network administrator is needed as everything to network
the two workstations is done automatically with the MagicTwin
software. You need less software installation, service,
maintenance and administration, which is the most expensive
factor in computing.
Innovative Time-Slicing / Multiplexing Technology for
Simplicity and Efficiency
1. No obvious delay because of the Time-slicing/Multiplexing
technology built-in. Each user gets an exact and extremely
short defined moment to access to the PC system, devices,
applications and Windows itself.
2. Resources are only claimed for nanoseconds at a time.
Both users get from Windows and the PC, what they really
need when they need it!
Minimal Hardware Requirement with Flexible Expandability
1. A processor of 1,2GHz and 256MB of system memory are
the minimum to start with. You can upgrade the hardware
as time goes and availability comes abundant.
Technology
The MagicTwin technology built-in serves as the basis. In
a software layer outside of the core Microsoft operating
system, keyboards, mouse pointing devices, graphics cards,
sound and additional hardware are managed separately and
assigned to the corresponding users. The MagicTwin technology
does not affect the Windows User Profiles and Device Management,
nor does it have an effect on the operating system maintenance.
However, the MagicTwin protocol does permit you to activate
USB disk drives, USB hard disks and USB memory sticks at
the various workstations.
The implemented time sharing method only permits one of
the connected users to have full access to the system at
any given moment. In the time sharing method (multiplexing),
each user, station, operating system, program, or hardware
component is granted exclusive use of the system for moment
in time. This occurs across a cable connection or directly
using hardware or software (processor, RAM, hard disk or
the operating system). Whenever the current foreground task
is being processed, the other tasks wait in the ‘background’
until they receive their own processing time. However, the
extremely fast switching between user accesses, combined
with increasingly powerful processors, convinces users that
they are working either alone or in parallel in the system.
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