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- From: schouten@sp95.csrd.uiuc.edu (Dale Schouten)
- Subject: Re: Def of a workstation (a lark)
- In-Reply-To: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM's message of 5 Jan 93 15:10:54 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan5.151054.12967@crd.ge.com> davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) writes:
- > For my money, if it runs UNIX (or POSIX) and supports TCP and NFS it's
- > a workstation. Otherwise it's a something else.
-
- I'd have to roughly agree here. I know it seems superficial, but when
- it comes down to it, the main thing I associate with a workstation
- that I don't find on PC's (aside from the decent sized screen) is a
- multi-user, multi-tasking (i.e. `real') operating system (so I can
- have lots of pretty windows) and relatively transparent connection
- to a network (i.e. NFS, file access without caring where the actual
- file is).
-
- Dale Schouten
- schouten@uiuc.edu
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