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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Workstation
Message-ID: <15657@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 1 Apr 91 07:42:56 GMT
References: <21033120330861@lax.wisc.edu>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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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.