Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 2 Feb 1999 11:08:22 +0000 (GMT/BST) | From | Mike Jagdis <> | Subject | Re: proper place to discuss kernel 'bloatedness'? |
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On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> As a gross generalisation in the PC world: > > The computers with all kinds of funky SCSI controllers and network > settings and no `multimedia' drivers are `servers'. > > The computers with IDE, sound cards, maybe TV and radio cards too, > and quite simple network setup are `workstations'. > > It would be short-sighted to set these generalisations about drivers > `in stone', though.
Yeah, I'd like my servers to play different theme tunes for incoming ISDN and modem connections (beats modem warbles :-) ) and have them multicast TV and radio around the local net (so that people could watch the business programs, of course...). Clients and servers are not *physically* separated, they are *logically* separated. This is why a workstation typically runs an NFS *client* but an X *server*. Ignore Microsoft's ramblings :-).
Mike
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