Any Pr1me fans out there? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

8 Sep 1998

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 On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Tony Duell wrote:

  > Workstation: a computer designed to run Unix
with a bitmapped display. The problem with this definition is that it would include
a PC running
Windows.  Very few seem to be willing to call that a workstation.

A workstation has to be *designed* to be networked, graphical, and
multitasking.  The Amiga would have been a workstation if it has
networking built-in.  If somebody built a PC that had networking built-in
and ran Windows NT, but could not run MS-DOS, I might be willing to call
that a workstation.
 How about the iMac it has networking built in and AFAIK doen't run MS stuff.
I think that todays machines are so versatile that it is pretty hard to
differenciate them out of the box, The way they are used makes them a
workstation, a server, a personal computer or what not, not the hardware
itself.