What is Workstation?
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Depending on context, generally a very powerful and fast computer (single-user or multi-user) that can connect to a network and perform functions more advanced than those of dumb terminals; workstations may be without their own hard drive storage units, and less robust computers can be called workstations as well. Workstations employed as servers may serve dozens or hundreds of remote terminals, as is the case when users log in to SunServers like chip, dale, and the like, and run Unix programs like Pine. To compound confusion even further, work station in a generic sense connotes a person's work space, his / her computer and desk .... |
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