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- From: lindsay+@cs.cmu.edu (Donald Lindsay)
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- Subject: Re: Def of a workstation
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- Date: 3 Jan 93 21:31:15 GMT
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- rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari) writes:
- > Can anyone give me a definition of workstation, other than
- > cost, that seperates it from modern high-end PC systems
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- "A workstation is a personal computer which allows you to get a
- variety of work done, in a relatively unfettered way, in an
- environment with coworkers. Today, that means three things.
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- 1) the workstation has to have at least 800,000 pixels.
- 2) the workstation has to network very naturally.
- 3) the workstation has to be multiprogrammed."
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- If his PC fits this, then it *is* a workstation. Computers are tools,
- not religions.
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- Don D.C.Lindsay Carnegie Mellon Computer Science
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