Can two users share the same iMac simultaneously?

I have recently acquired several 2009 Mac "towers" (kind of new to Mac, here...  have patience...) and I'm trying to stretch the 20 computers I was given so it can service 40 students.  They all have 6gb of RAM, a couple of TB's of memory, fast processors and (from my understanding) can support two demanding users at one time.  They also have two network ports.
Now, I'm not talking about using two monitors on one Mac, because I know how to do that.  I'm trying to have two totally separate users, with two different accounts on a network, logging in totally independently and drawing off of a similar network.  So, I'm basically trying to make it so we "split" one Mac so that two students can use one machine.
I thought about partitioning the drive so that I can have two parallel installations of iOS, running independently of each other (not sure if that's possible) but then I wouldn't know how to connect the machine to the internet.  I know it has two different network ports but I'm not sure how to make them operate independently.  The students need to have their own login and should not be able to mess with the other student's items.
I appreciate any and all tips or help.
Thanks again!

You can create as many individual user accounts on a Mac as you like. Then, any one or more of those users can remotely log in from another Mac and use that Mac as their own, simultaneously. Each account will remain separate from all others.
However, since each user needs to have a Mac to do that, I'm not sure how you could effectively double the number of users as you describe.

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