Substantial time savings are obtained in system performance and convenience. Of course, the main reason networking is done at all is to obtain the advantages of connectivity. We are HP users as well as hardware vendors. At Eventide, we have been slowly but surely consolidating our business, engineering, microprocessor development, and administrative systems into a networked environment. If you still have your workstations scattered around the building, each with its own disk, its own set of software updates, and its own backup routine, you will love having it all together.
Networks are better.
OK, I'm convinced. This may be somewhat pricey, but there are no node licensing charges, so you can amortize the price over the number of workstations you can connect, which is, for practical purposes, unlimited. That's all there is to the connection. The new workstation now has access to the HP-UX environment, including printer and plotter spooling. I have an old 216 computer.