Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wasatch!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: What is a Workstation? (What should GNU ...) Message-ID: <5776@ficc.uu.net> Date: 18 Aug 89 13:14:11 GMT References: <20638@adm.BRL.MIL> Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 22 In article <20638@adm.BRL.MIL>, drs@bnlux0.bnl.gov (David R. Stampf) writes: > A few years ago, Bill Joy described a workstation in terms of 6 M's. I > think that the description is still fairly valid. Well, the original was the CMU 3-M criterion: MIP/Million Pixels/Megabyte. > Mip processing power > Million Pixels > Megabyte network > Megabye of memory (hah!) > Mouse > Multuser/tasking Operating System By this standard an Amiga 2000 with a network card and a Viking monitor is a workstation. Certainly a Bell Tech Blitstation-200 qualifies many times over. And that's a PC. -- Peter da Silva, *NIX support guy @ Ferranti International Controls Corporation. Biz: peter@ficc.uu.net, +1 713 274 5180. Fun: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com. `-_-' "Optimization is not some mystical state of grace, it is an intricate act U of human labor which carries real costs and real risks." -- Tom Neff