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Re:Completely Silent Computer by seandougall on Tuesday May 15, 2018 @10:42PM (#17079630)
> definitely a mouse and a mouse-centric interface.

Wouldn’t that mean most servers aren’t computers? Not to mention the DOS machines I grew up with, or everything made before the Xerox Alto?

> I have tried using an iPad Pro for productivity, and it's living hell.

Not going to disagree with you there. But that doesn’t make it not-a-computer.

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Re:Completely Silent Computer by nkkollaw on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @05:33AM (#17081061)
Those are servers.

If we want to classify devices, we need to group them somehow. Otherwise we call them devices and call it a day.

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Re:Completely Silent Computer by zingmars on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @08:15AM (#17081743)
His old DOS machines certainly weren't servers. Not having a GUI does not make a machine a server and having a GUI does not make a computer not-a-server (especially since we have graphics chips inside CPUs now).
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Re:Completely Silent Computer by icebraining on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @07:46AM (#17081615)
Servers are still computers.

We already classify them: smartphones, tablets, laptops, desktops, servers are all groups of computers.

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