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From: datri@concave.uucp (Anthony A. Datri)
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Subject: Re: What differentiates a Workstation from a PC (Re: What should GNU run on (was Re: what kinds of things . . .))
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Date: 14 Aug 89 21:25:10 GMT
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== 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.

Personally, I find it difficult to call something running MS-DOS with
a fairly low-res screen a workstation.