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From: heinola@hkkk.fi (Bror Heinola)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: An interesting idea...
Message-ID: <1991May09.070110.4607@hkkk.fi>
Date: 9 May 91 07:01:10 GMT
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Organization: Helsinki School of Economics, Finland
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In <7r8G&?-&1@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:

>What's the difference b/w a workstation and a PC?  Could you define
>them for me.  The boundaries have blurred.

	How about this;

	Workstation has multiuser/multitasking OS, wide and fast I/O
	bus, large hi-res screen with good GUI. 

	PC has MS-DOS (yuck), slow I/O, VGA (hah) ... 

	Of course you can get all those workstation stuff to PC too,
	but is it PC anymore when you add *NIX, EISA bus with all those
	fancy bus-mastering cards (and EISA isn't that fast afterall),
	and some large screen and f.ex. TARGA-board?
	
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