THINGVOL@LAX.WISC.EDU (04/01/91)
In this day and age, what is the difference between a workstation and a pc?
Daniel Thingvold thingvol@lax.wisc.edu
@uwlax.bitnet
The three most dangerous things in the world are:
1. A programmer with a soldering iron,
2. A hardware type with a program patch, and
3. A user with an idea.gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) (04/01/91)
In article <21033120330861@lax.wisc.edu> THINGVOL@LAX.WISC.EDU writes: >In this day and age, what is the difference between a workstation and a pc? Typically, a workstation runs UNIX, a PC runs MS-DOS. The difference tends to be obvious when you encounter them; my father has a nice 33MHz 80386 system with enhanced VGA, mouse, 80387 FPA, lots of RAM, hard disk, Windows 3.0, etc. and yet it is obviously a PC, not a workstation. Around me at BRL are a bunch of SGI (Iris) workstations; they're obviously not PCs. I agree with the point that to some degree such labels are artificial, and I generally avoid them myself.