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In article <1993Jan04.155544.18325@eng.umd.edu>, sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu (Doug
Mohney) writes:

|>In article <1i5vdmINN3ek@cs.widener.edu>, YOUNG@tattoo.cs.widener.edu (Rob
|>Young) writes:
|>>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.

I think you will notice a big difference between the seriously nice PXG graphics
on the TURBOchannel and the PC weanie version. 

|>Hm. Does this mean the HP Workstations, which use EISA, are really PeeCees
|>in disguise? :-)

Probably the reason for DEC marketing making the distinction.

|>Actually, a "workstation" would have the following vague and fuzzy
|>definitions,
|>according to the book of Moo:
|>
|>	A) One big f@#$ing screen, which is nearly as expensive as the CPU.
|>	   Don't bother braggin' unless it's 17" or better.

Lots of PCs seem to be appearing with the SONY Trinitron monitor, a niiccceee
peice of kit.

|>	B) Designed to be seamless-ly intergrated into Internet and can run
|>	   news. :-) PC's don't count here because you have to:
|>		1) buy an Ethernet card 
|>		2) Add drivers to run TCP/IP

Which throws out VMS again since TCP/IP is an add on, since Multinet etc started
up DEC would have a lawsuit on their hands if they bundled UCX.

Mind you ont thing that peeves me. Have you noticed all the pc portables that
don't have an ethernet card? To get a portable Pc that plugs into the net I
would have to by something costing almost as much as a workstation, Also the
expansion boxes for those beasties are a rip off, most only seem to have two
slots - after you have plugged in your ethernet card you have to chose between
the frame grabber for dirty pickys, the SCSI bus interface, the hi res display
card...


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Phill Hallam-Baker