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Article #11333Re: Def of a workstation (a lark)
From: Rob Young
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1993 06:00
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1993 06:00
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In <1993Jan3.052930.27869@wam.umd.edu> rsrodger@wam.umd.edu writes:
> At first I was tempted to talk about UNIX or RISC, but these
> were less than satisfactory (UNIX because he could be running
> UNIX, and RISC sounds deficient--those old M68k based Suns are
> still workstations...and then there's the 386i...)..
>
> Anyone? Come to think of it, it's pretty muddled to me, too.
>
The bus. At least that is how DEC is differentiating their Alpha PC (yet
to debut) from their workstations. The PC will have the same chip (125
MHz) as the yet to debut low-end workstation. The workstation is Turbochannel
based, the PC EISA.
Rob
young@tattoo.cs.widener.edu
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists
in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends
on the unreasonable man." --George Bernard Shaw
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!dsinc!cs.widener.edu!cs.widener.edu!usenet From: YOUNG@tattoo.cs.widener.edu (Rob Young) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Def of a workstation (a lark) Message-ID: <1i5vdmINN3ek@cs.widener.edu> Date: 3 Jan 93 06:00:22 GMT References: <1993Jan3.052930.27869@wam.umd.edu> Organization: Widener News/Mail Gateway Lines: 20 NNTP-Posting-Host: tattoo.cs.widener.edu X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.20 In-Reply-To: rsrodger@wam.umd.edu's message of Sun, 3 Jan 1993 05:29:30 GMT