WHAT’S A WORKSTATION (second)
Workstations perforated metal differ from conventional computer systems in providing each user with a guaranteed amount of processing power at all times. Conventional time-share Perforated metal computing systems can slow each user’s processing to a crawl if many users compete for resources at once.
Workstations reveal thir true power when linked into networks through two kinds of machines called “servers”. One such machine, the file server, stores and retrieves data files for the workstations: it acts as the central data-storage depot for the network.
A workstaion perforated- metal user who needs additiona computing resources to run a specialized or time-consuming task can direct it to the computer server, which mayh come frome the workstation manfacture or another company. The computer server rus the task when it has the time, Meanwhile, the user can do other tasks on the workstation.