Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!convex!concave!datri From: datri@concave.uucp (Anthony A. Datri) 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 . . .)) Message-ID: <1528@convex.UUCP> Date: 14 Aug 89 21:25:10 GMT References: <20519@adm.BRL.MIL> <36370@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <5665@ficc.uu.net> <1510@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl> Sender: news@convex.UUCP Reply-To: datri@convex.com Organization: Convex Computer Corporation, Richardson, Tx. Lines: 8 == 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.