Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!texbell!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) 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: <5687@ficc.uu.net> Date: 15 Aug 89 14:51:37 GMT References: <20519@adm.BRL.MIL> <36370@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <5665@ficc.uu.net> <1528@convex.UUCP> Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 11 In article <1528@convex.UUCP>, datri@concave.uucp (Anthony A. Datri) writes: > Personally, I find it difficult to call something running MS-DOS with > a fairly low-res screen a workstation. How about something runing UNIX and X-windows with a 1K by 1K display? That's what you'll find in high-end PCs these days. -- Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation. Business: peter@ficc.uu.net, +1 713 274 5180. | "The sentence I am now Personal: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com. `-_-' | writing is the sentence Quote: Have you hugged your wolf today? 'U` | you are now reading"