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- From: essbaum@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Alexander Essbaum)
- Subject: Re: Def of a workstation (a lark)
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- Message-ID: <1993Jan05.135147.9392@rchland.ibm.com>
- Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 13:51:47 GMT
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- In article <1iarmrINNk28@news.cerf.net>, davsmith@nic.cerf.net (David Smith) writes:
- |>
- |> Top ten differences betweed PC's and workstation's
- |>
- |> 10. PC's have PowerUsers (tm), workstation's have Guru's
- |> 9. Workstations come with powerful backup utilities, like dump/restore and dd
- |> 8. Can't buy workstation peripherals at Crazy Al's Discount Computer
- |> 7. PC's have better games
-
- well, i definitely disagree with this one.
-
- |> 6. Humor impaired PC users can't easily post to the net
- |> 5. Don't have to log in to PC (Note - this functionality can be reproduced
- |> on Sun's with the exclusive "L1-A" key combo)
- |> 4. "Workstation" implies you actually do something useful with your computer,
- |> even if yo do only run Xtrek and news all day.
- ^^^^^
- PC's have more games, but the vast majority use the computer as your
- opponent. workstations are usually fast enough and networked such that you
- can play real-time interactive games against other people and just use the
- computer as an interface. xtrek is a good example of this (so is xtank).
- even slow/strategy games are better if you can play with/against several
- people instead of against the computer.
-
- |> 3. Workstations have "field engineers" who will come to your office and break
- |> it for you.
- |> 2. Workstations don't come in those grody PC cases
- |> 1. You don't send Bill Gates any money when you buy a workstation
- |>
- |> --
- |> David L. Smith
- |> smithd@discos.com or davsmith@nic.cerf.net
-
- everyone knows games are the #1 use for computers. :)
-
- axel
-