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From: peter@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl (Peter Sliepenbeek)
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Summary: outdated filosophies
Message-ID: <1510@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl>
Date: 14 Aug 89 08:41:27 GMT
References: <20519@adm.BRL.MIL> <36370@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <5665@ficc.uu.net>
Organization: Univ of Utrecht, Dept of CS
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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.