9 Mar
2023
9 Mar
'23
1:35 a.m.
On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 10:06 AM Paul Ruizendaal <pnr(a)planet.nl> wrote:
I don't think it's nonsense. I do think it is reaching a bit to draw
an analogy that was probably unconsidered at the time, but that's ok.
I think the study of history turns up such things all the time.
- Dan C.
On 8 Mar 2023,
at 15:23, Dan Cross <crossd(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I wouldn't try to be too rigid in your terms here. The term
"workstation" was probably never well-defined; it had more of an
intuitive connotation of a machine that was more powerful than
something you could get on the consumer market (like a PC or 8-bit
microcomputer), but wasn't a minicomputer or mainframe/supercomputer.
Yes, I got a bit carried away there. The point I was trying to make was in context of the
wheel of reincarnation, though: if the system is a Vax and a Blit, we could conceptually
think of the Blit as an accelerated graphics card for the Vax, having made one full
revolution. If this is nonsense, why is the Magnolia different?