What differentiates a Workstation from a PC (Re: What should GNU run on (was Re: what kinds of things . . .))

[David B. Lewis]

In article <1510 at ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl<, peter at ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl (Peter Sliepenbeek) writes:
< In article <5665 at ficc.uu.net>, peter at ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
< > In article <36370 at bu-cs.BU.EDU>, madd at 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.

that you turn a PC off at night.
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David B. Lewis david at ics.com ics!david at buita.bu.edu david%ics.UUCP at buita.bu.edu

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