What is a Workstation? (What should GNU ...)

[Peter da Silva]

In article <20638 at adm.BRL.MIL>, drs at bnlux0.bnl.gov (David R. Stampf) writes:
> 	A few years ago, Bill Joy described a workstation in terms of 6 M's. I
> think that the description is still fairly valid.

	Well, the original was the CMU 3-M criterion:
		MIP/Million Pixels/Megabyte.

> 	Mip processing power
> 	Million Pixels
> 	Megabyte network
> 	Megabye of memory (hah!)
> 	Mouse
> 	Multuser/tasking Operating System

	By this standard an Amiga 2000 with a network card and a Viking
	monitor is a workstation. Certainly a Bell Tech Blitstation-200
	qualifies many times over. And that's a PC.
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