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- From: bhoughto@sedona.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
- Subject: Re: What CPU supported as workstation ??
- Date: 11 Nov 1992 18:42:49 GMT
- Organization: Intel Corp., Chandler, Arizona
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- In article <BxIpIs.40z@acsu.buffalo.edu> ziniuwei@acsu.buffalo.edu (Ziniu Wei) writes:
- >In my opinion, workstation is a kind of working enviroment, a trend of
- >compution. It does nothing with the CPU. Most of us agree that a normal
- >configuration of 486 is not a workstation, but what if a 486 machine with 20"
- >color display, graphic accelerator, installed with Unix, NFS, and connected to
- >a LAN?
-
- These exist. NCR (/AT&T) makes a series of workstations containing
- the i486(TM) CPU.
-
- --Blair
- "Mine should arrive any month, now..."
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