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- From: mshute@cs.man.ac.uk (Malcolm Shute)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: Def of a workstation (a lark)
- Message-ID: <7114@m1.cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 12:08:01 GMT
- References: <1993Jan3.052930.27869@wam.umd.edu> <WAYNE.93Jan3184216@backbone.uucp>
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- Organization: Dept Computer Science, University of Manchester, U.K.
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- >In article <1993Jan3.052930.27869@wam.umd.edu> rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari) writes:
- >> Can anyone give me a definition of workstation, other than
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- In article <WAYNE.93Jan3184216@backbone.uucp> wayne@backbone.uucp (Wayne Schlitt) writes:
- >* A workstation must be network ready.
- > This doesn't mean that you can't have one workstation sitting
- > somewhere, but you must be able to add additional workstations easily.
-
- For me, you've hit the nail on the head, here... as did a later poster
- by observing, rather flippantly, that you are more likely to have to login
- on a workstation than on a PC.
-
- A personal computer, it would seem to me, is a computer that is for one person's
- personal use. A workstation is a station which is available for doing work,
- presumably by anyone who can demand it.
-
- My workstation here is in a locked office... but anyone on the network
- can send work to it, or even remotely login to it. I would say that if it
- weren't for this property, that I would have a PC connected to a network.
- Similary, as Wayne points out, it is equally possible to have a WS which is
- not (yet) connected to a network... but is ready to be so.
-
- Just my thoughts, anyway...
- I look forward to being shown the error of my logic :-)
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- Malcolm SHUTE. (The AM Mollusc: v_@_ ) Disclaimer: all
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