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- From: YOUNG@tattoo.cs.widener.edu (Rob Young)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: Def of a workstation (a lark)
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- Date: 3 Jan 93 06:00:22 GMT
- References: <1993Jan3.052930.27869@wam.umd.edu>
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- In-Reply-To: rsrodger@wam.umd.edu's message of Sun, 3 Jan 1993 05:29:30 GMT
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- In <1993Jan3.052930.27869@wam.umd.edu> rsrodger@wam.umd.edu writes:
-
- > At first I was tempted to talk about UNIX or RISC, but these
- > were less than satisfactory (UNIX because he could be running
- > UNIX, and RISC sounds deficient--those old M68k based Suns are
- > still workstations...and then there's the 386i...)..
- >
- > Anyone? Come to think of it, it's pretty muddled to me, too.
- >
-
- The bus. At least that is how DEC is differentiating their Alpha PC (yet
- to debut) from their workstations. The PC will have the same chip (125
- MHz) as the yet to debut low-end workstation. The workstation is Turbochannel
- based, the PC EISA.
- Rob
-
- young@tattoo.cs.widener.edu
- "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists
- in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends
- on the unreasonable man." --George Bernard Shaw
-