Re: New VSI post on Youtube

On Sun, 18 Aug 2024 21:17:00 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

On 8/18/2024 8:46 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

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On Sun, 18 Aug 2024 20:30:59 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
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25-40 years ago there were workstations running VMS, SunOS, Solaris,
HP-UX, AIX, Ultrix, Tru64 etc..
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Today a workstations is just a marketing term for a high-end PC
running Windows or Linux.

 
Linux is the one that still offers the full “workstation” capabilities.
Microsoft called their desktop version of NT “Workstation”, but all its
server-like capabilities were carefully crippled to avoid cannibalizing
sales of its actual servers.

 
Most (commercial) Linux distros comes with a "server" version and a
"desktop" version.

Same software, just choose different packages to install. And you can
change your mind later and just install/remove different packages, without
a reinstall. (Unlike Windows -- see below.)

I don't think there is much difference in how Linux vendors and
Microsoft position server and desktop products.

Like I said, Microsoft carefully cripples its NT “Workstation” line to
avoid encroaching on “Server” territory. That way it gets to charge a
whole lot more for the latter.

Around the time of NT 3.51, I think it was, somebody discovered that you
could turn the “Workstation” version into the “Server” version just by
editing a Registry key or two. Microsoft plugged that hole in the next
release.