Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!purdue!bu-cs!ics!david From: david@ics.COM (David B. Lewis) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: What differentiates a Workstation from a PC (Re: What should GNU run on (was Re: what kinds of things . . .)) Summary: another difference Message-ID: <2430@ics.COM> Date: 15 Aug 89 13:40:32 GMT References: <20519@adm.BRL.MIL< <36370@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <5665@ficc.uu.net> <1510@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl> Organization: Integrated Computer Solutions, Inc., Cambridge MA Lines: 16 In article <1510@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl<, peter@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl (Peter Sliepenbeek) writes: < In article <5665@ficc.uu.net>, peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: < > In article <36370@bu-cs.BU.EDU>, madd@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Jim Frost) writes: < > > THe only thing that differentiates a "PC" from a "workstation", so far as < > > I can tell, is... < > < < that a PC still holds on to philosophies expressed in an 8-bit age while < living in a 32-bit (64?) age, against the "eagerness" with which < a workstation is equipped to make use of the newest technologies. that you turn a PC off at night. -- David B. Lewis david@ics.com ics!david@buita.bu.edu david%ics.UUCP@buita.bu.edu "No, I'm a member of the X User's Group, not the Ex-User's Group."