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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Do =?UTF-8?B?TWljcm9zb2Z04oCZcw==?= Copilot+ PCs Require Linux?
Date: Sun, 26 May 2024 23:22:11 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sun, 26 May 2024 10:12:51 -0400, DFS wrote:

> A 'workstation' is just a powerful desktop computer, and Windows is king
> of the desktop.

Think of a “desktop” as a cut-down workstation: anything that might 
encroach on “server”-style functionality has had its functionality 
carefully crippled.

This is how the “Unix workstations” of yore worked. They were expensive 
back then. So Windows NT “Workstation” came along, at a cut-down price, 
and also cut-down functionality, but the customers didn’t notice -- then.

Today, only Linux and the BSDs offer “workstation”-class functionality.