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Article #11345Re: Def of a workstation
From: Donald Lindsay
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1993 21:31
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1993 21:31
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rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari) writes: > Can anyone give me a definition of workstation, other than > cost, that seperates it from modern high-end PC systems "A workstation is a personal computer which allows you to get a variety of work done, in a relatively unfettered way, in an environment with coworkers. Today, that means three things. 1) the workstation has to have at least 800,000 pixels. 2) the workstation has to network very naturally. 3) the workstation has to be multiprogrammed." If his PC fits this, then it *is* a workstation. Computers are tools, not religions. -- Don D.C.Lindsay Carnegie Mellon Computer Science
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!wupost!howland.reston.ans.net!paladin.american.edu!gatech!swrinde!sgiblab!cs.uoregon.edu!ogicse!das-news.harvard.edu!cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!lindsay From: lindsay+@cs.cmu.edu (Donald Lindsay) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Def of a workstation Message-ID: <C0Ars4.5sD.2@cs.cmu.edu> Date: 3 Jan 93 21:31:15 GMT Article-I.D.: cs.C0Ars4.5sD.2 References: <1993Jan3.052930.27869@wam.umd.edu> Sender: news@cs.cmu.edu (Usenet News System) Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon Lines: 17 Nntp-Posting-Host: gandalf.cs.cmu.edu