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- From: sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu (Doug Mohney)
- Subject: Re: Def of a workstation (a lark)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan04.155544.18325@eng.umd.edu>
- Date: Mon, 04 Jan 93 15:55:44 GMT
- Organization: Computer Aided Design Lab, U. of Maryland College Park
- References: <1993Jan3.052930.27869@wam.umd.edu>,<1i5vdmINN3ek@cs.widener.edu>
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- In article <1i5vdmINN3ek@cs.widener.edu>, YOUNG@tattoo.cs.widener.edu (Rob Young) writes:
- >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.
-
- Hm. Does this mean the HP Workstations, which use EISA, are really PeeCees
- in disguise? :-)
-
- Actually, a "workstation" would have the following vague and fuzzy definitions,
- according to the book of Moo:
-
- A) One big f@#$ing screen, which is nearly as expensive as the CPU.
- Don't bother braggin' unless it's 17" or better.
-
- B) Designed to be seamless-ly intergrated into Internet and can run
- news. :-) PC's don't count here because you have to:
- 1) buy an Ethernet card
- 2) Add drivers to run TCP/IP
-
- Hmm...
-
- On second thought, I'll take the supreme court version,
-
- "I'll know it when I see it"
-
- given some people are using PCs for "workstation"-like work.
-
- I have talked to Ehud, and lived.
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