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>In article <1993Jan3.052930.27869@wam.umd.edu> rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari) writes:
>> 	Can anyone give me a definition of workstation, other than 

In article <WAYNE.93Jan3184216@backbone.uucp> wayne@backbone.uucp (Wayne Schlitt) writes:
>* A workstation must be network ready.
>  This doesn't mean that you can't have one workstation sitting
>  somewhere, but you must be able to add additional workstations easily.

For me, you've hit the nail on the head, here... as did a later poster
by observing, rather flippantly, that you are more likely to have to login
on a workstation than on a PC.

A personal computer, it would seem to me, is a computer that is for one person's
personal use.  A workstation is a station which is available for doing work,
presumably by anyone who can demand it.

My workstation here is in a locked office... but anyone on the network
can send work to it, or even remotely login to it.  I would say that if it
weren't for this property, that I would have a PC connected to a network.
Similary, as Wayne points out, it is equally possible to have a WS which is
not (yet) connected to a network... but is ready to be so.

Just my thoughts, anyway...
I look forward to being shown the error of my logic :-)
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