[geeks] New SGI workstation

Bjorn Ramqvist v53278 at g.haggve.se
Wed Jul 16 01:13:37 CDT 2003


Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>
> A machine that shares most of the same guts as my AMD Athlon system but
> has a different CPU... that's not a PC?
> 
> I generally call it PC when it has Intel/AMD guts, but in the 90s
> workstations started using commodity parts, and the lines were blurred.

When it's capable of running Windows, it's definitly a PeeCee.
(And that's not counting non-x86 architectures that "could" run WinNT
4.0 and pre-Win2k)

/Bjorn



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