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In article <1993Jan3.235327.13718@qb.rhein-main.de>, vhs@rhein-main.de (Volker
Herminghaus-Shirai) writes:

|>A decent workstation has IMHO *at least* the following items of which the
|>software can and does take advantage of:
|>	a high-resolution screen
|>	a pointing device
|>	an ethernet connection (or token ring if your management was bribed ;-)
|>	a UN*X operating system with TCP/IP support and a C compiler
|>	a boot prom that allows for interactive diagnosis etc.
|>	a decent amount of RAM and hard disk space
|>	a tape drive for backups and data exchange as opposed to floppy disk
|>	other items I may have forgotten (it's already tomorrow...;-)

Oh so my Alpha 3000/500 isn't a workstation becaus I run VMS? Well well...

By any resonable definition the old VAX-2000 was a workstation, mouse, high res
screen, windows. Only too damn slow to do anything sensible on.

They were great for about 6 months after they came out. Then people started
hammering them as the windows stuff allowed you to do more with the machine. I
wouldn;t thank someone for giving me a 2000 to use as a workstation today.

So far I haven't felt the lack of a tape drive. I have a CD ROM but no tape,
just the net.


IMHO a workstation should have the following:-

High Res Screen + Mouse (Pref Sony Trinitron...)
FDDI
Secure Multiprocessing O/S with threads.
Lots of RAM, lots of disk avaliable.
Full Online Documentation 


For home use I fail to see the need for multiuser. For use at work I would
want:-

FDDI and Ethernet
Multiuser

Either way I would want POSIX to be avaliable.


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Phill Hallam-Baker