The Hardware Makes It A PC, The Software Makes It A Workstation, The Unit Sales Make It A Mainframe.

The Hardware Makes It A PC, The Software Makes It A Workstation, The Unit Sales Make It A Mainframe.

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The hardware makes it a PC, the software makes it a Workstation, the
unit sales make it a Mainframe.
-- on the NeXT

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Software makes hardware happen.
SUBROUTINE: A unit of software that makes tangled code look like it isn't.
Opposite of GOTO (sort of). Useful for overflowing STACKs....
A mainframe: The biggest PC peripheral available.
feeper: /fee'pr/ n. The device in a terminal or workstation (usually a loudspeaker of some kind) that makes the {feep} sound.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
feeper /fee'pr/ n. The device in a terminal or workstation (usually a loudspeaker of some kind) that makes the feep sound.
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
Brook's Law: Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.
Adding manpower to a late software project only makes it later. -- Brook's Law