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  1. Newsgroups: comp.arch
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!timbuk.cray.com!walter.cray.com!craywr!wws
  3. From: wws@craywr.cray.com (Walter Spector)
  4. Subject: Re: Def  of a workstation (a lark)
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan6.121145.6103@walter.cray.com>
  6. Lines: 16
  7. Sender: wws@craywr (Walter Spector)
  8. Nntp-Posting-Host: craywr.cray.com
  9. Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
  10. References: <1993Jan3.052930.27869@wam.umd.edu> <1993Jan3.235327.13718@qb.rhein-main.de> <1993Jan6.165640.2894@lsl.co.uk>
  11. Date: 6 Jan 93 12:11:45 CST
  12.  
  13. One set of critera I use for the PC vs. workstation dividing line is:
  14.  
  15.     Does it have hardware memory management (so program A can't
  16.     clobber program B)?
  17.  
  18.     And does the operating system in use enforce this?
  19.  
  20. The '836 and '486 chips appear to have some capabilities in this respect,
  21. but vanilla MSDOS seems hopeless.
  22.  
  23. Walt
  24. ----
  25. Walt Spector                God created the world in 7 days,
  26. (wws@renaissance.cray.com)          but God didn't have an installed base.
  27. Sunnyvale, California                (unknown Usenet poster)
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