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In article <1993Jan05.004806.14107@news.mentorg.com>, mbutts@mbutts.mentorg.com (Mike Butts) writes:
| The fundamental difference between a workstation and a well-configured 486
| PC is the software-readable serial number (hostid) in the workstation.  
| 
| Think about it.

  You may be right. Certainly if you accept a Sun 4/100, or a
Sun3/anything, or an HP 750 as workstations, you have a hard time
finding something lacking in a good 486+UNIX setup.

  Oddly, when we split our site into two class B subnets (out of IP
addresses) the "PC net" included a bunch of Suns used for NFS mounts
from DOS and TOPS mounts from Macs. The workstation subnet includes a
number of Intel based workstations. A lot comes down to "what you do
with it."

  The person who said that a workstation must use a GUI certainly let
out Sun, the default boot mode is single screen dumb terminal. I guess
that makes the Mac a workstation because it *does* boot a GUI.

  For my money, if it runs UNIX (or POSIX) and supports TCP and NFS it's
a workstation. Otherwise it's a something else.
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bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
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