Question: can I have 2 workstations on 1 mac pro?

I wish to have a remote display, keyboard and mouse on my mac pro in addition to the one in place now .
1 user at a time at either workstation.   thank you!

If I understand you correctly, you want to have one computer, two screens, two keyboards, and two mice with two people working simultaneously on the same computer but doing different tasks on the two separate screens.
As far as I know, OSX does not allow this. You can have multiple displays but only a single keyboard and mouse and only one "active" task.
Actually, I personally don't know of any system that does what you are asking. In many systems, you can remotely log into a machine, but you need to have a second machine in order to do so. The second machine effectively becomes the GUI while running the actual jobs on the machine being logged into.

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