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

[Peter Sliepenbeek]

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.