Computer workstations Computer workstations The 3Station was a diskless workstation, developed by Bob Metcalfe at 3Com and first available in 1986. The 3Station/2E had a 10 MHz 80286 processor, 1 megabyte of RAM (expandable to 5MB), VGA-compatible graphics with 256 kB of video RAM, and integrated AUI/ BNC network transceivers for LAN access. The product used a single printed-circuit board with four custom ASICs. It had neither a floppy disk drive nor a hard disk; it was booted from a server and stored all end-user files there. ...more on Wikipedia about "3Station"
Apollo/Domain was a range of workstations developed and produced by Apollo Computers, Inc. from circa 1980 to 1989. The machines were built around the Motorola 68k family of processors, except for the DN10000, which had from one to four of Apollo's RISC processors, named PRISM. ...more on Wikipedia about "Apollo/Domain"
The Atari Falcon was Atari's final computer product, more specifically named the Atari Falcon030 Computer System. The machine was based on a Motorola 68030 main CPU, and had a Motorola 56000 digital signal processor (the latter distinguishing it from most other microcomputers of the era). ...more on Wikipedia about "Atari Falcon"
The Atari Transputer Workstation (also known as ATW-800, or simply ATW) was a workstation class computer released by Atari in the late 1980s. Based on the INMOS Transputer, the machine was considerably more powerful than anything available on the market at the time. ...more on Wikipedia about "Atari Transputer Workstation"
A computer workstation, often colloquially referred to as workstation, is a high-end general-purpose microcomputer designed to be used by one person at a time and which offers higher performance than normally found in a personal computer, especially with respect to graphics, processing power and the ability to carry out several tasks at the same time. When comparing with some of the old definitions of computing power, some people may consider a workstation to be the equivalent of a one-person minicomputer. Today the average personal computer is as, or even more, powerful than top of the line workstations of one generation older, forcing the traditional workstation vendors into niche markets. ...more on Wikipedia about "Computer workstation"
AViiON was a series of computers from Data General that were the company's main product from the late 1980s until the company's server products were discontinued in 2001. Earlier AViiON models used the Motorola 88000 CPU, but later models moved to an all- Intel solution when Motorola stopped work on the 88000 in the early 1990s. Some versions of these later Intel-based machines ran Windows NT, while higher-end machines ran the company's flavor of Unix, DG/UX. ...more on Wikipedia about "Data General AViiON"
The Datamax UV-1 was a pioneering computer designed by a group of computer graphics artists working at the University of Illinois, known as the Circle Graphics Habitat. It was primarily the brainchild of Tom DeFanti, who was trying to build a machine capable of running his GRASS programming language at a personal computer price point, a project they referred to as the Z-Box. As time went on the project evolved into a machine intended to be used to make high-quality color graphics for output to videotape, and later as a titling system for use by cable television companies. It represents what seems to be the first dedicated graphics workstation. ...more on Wikipedia about "Datamax UV-1" Things Go Better with www.shortopedia.com. shortopedia
The Multia, later re-branded the Universal Desktop Box, is a line of computer workstations produced by the Digital Equipment Corporation in the mid-1990s. The line is notable in that units were offered with either an Alpha AXP or Intel Pentium processor as the CPU, and most hardware other than the backplane and CPU were interchangeable. Both the Alpha AXP and Intel Pentium versions were intended to run Windows NT. ...more on Wikipedia about "DEC Multia"
Dell Precision products include Workstations and "mobile workstations" (high-performance laptops). ...more on Wikipedia about "Dell Precision"
The DeskStation Tyne was a line of computer workstations made by DeskStation Technology and based on the MIPS R4000 and R4400 series of RISC microprocessors. The DeskStation Tyne was designed to run Windows NT, and was designed to (substantially) conform to the Advanced RISC Computing standard (and ran the associated firmware). ...more on Wikipedia about "DeskStation Tyne"
A Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) is a system designed to record, edit, and play back digital audio. A key feature of DAWs is the ability to freely manipulate recorded sounds, much like a word processor manipulates typed words. ...more on Wikipedia about "Digital audio workstation"
HP 9000 is the name for a line of computer systems produced by the ...more on Wikipedia about "HP 9000"
The Imlac PDS-1 is a graphical minicomputer made by Imlac Corporation of Needham, Massachusetts. The PDS-1 debuted in 1970 and is considered to be the predecessor of all later graphical minicomputers and modern computer workstations. The PDS-1 had a built-in display list processor and 4096 16-bit words of core RAM. The PDS-1 used a vector display processor for displaying vector graphics as opposed to the raster graphics of modern computer displays. The PDS-1 was often used with another flagship Imlac product, a typesetting program called CES. ...more on Wikipedia about "Imlac PDS-1"
Kronos was the name of a secret 32-bit graphical workstation developed near Novosibirsk, (Soviet Union) in the mid- 1980s. It was based on Niklaus Wirth's workstation Lilith. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kronos (computer)"
Lilith is the name of custom built workstation using the AMD 2901 bit-slice processor by the group of Niklaus Wirth at ETH Zürich. The project started in 1977 and by 1984 several hundred workstations were in use. It had a full page display, a mouse, a laser-printer interface, and a network interface. Its software was written completely in Modula-2 and included a relational database program called Lidas. ...more on Wikipedia about "Lilith (computer)"
Lisp machines were general-purpose computers designed (usually through hardware support) to efficiently run Lisp as their main software language. In a sense, they were the first commercial single-user workstations. While modest in number (perhaps 7000 units as of 1988 ), they pioneered or developed many now-commonplace technologies, including effective garbage collection, laser printing, windowing systems, high-resolution bit-mapped graphics, computer graphic rendering and a number of networking innovations. ...more on Wikipedia about "Lisp machine"
The Mindset was sold around 1984 as a high-end graphics workstation which was somewhat "PC compatible". Based on Intel's 80186, it had proprietary chips that enhanced and sped up the graphics. It also had a 10MB(?) hard disk and dual front-mounted ROM cartridge ports. A 5.25 floppy drive module that sat above the main unit was available and part of the common sales configuration for the system. For a short while it was cutting edge, but quickly the Apple Macintosh and the IBM clones surpassed it and it disappeared. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mindset computer"
The MIPS Magnum was a line of computer workstations designed by MIPS Computer Systems, Inc. and based on the MIPS series of RISC microprocessors. The first Magnum was released in March, 1990, and production of various models continued until 1993. The early, R3000-based Magnum series ran only RISC/os, a variant of BSD Unix, but the subsequent Magnum workstations based on the Jazz architecture ran both RISC/os and Windows NT. In addition to these proprietary operating systems, both Linux and NetBSD have been ported to the Jazz-based MIPS Magnum machines. ...more on Wikipedia about "MIPS Magnum"
A NOW or Network of Workstations is a computer network which connects several computer workstations together, and by utilising special software it allows to use the network as a cluster. ...more on Wikipedia about "Network of Workstations"
NeXT was a computer company, known to the public for its futuristic black hardware, and to programmers for its outstanding object-oriented development platform. NeXT merged with Apple Computer on December 20, 1996, and its software was the foundation for Mac OS X. NeXT was headquartered in Redwood City, California. ...more on Wikipedia about "NeXT"
NuMachine was a project in the late 1970s at MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science to design a computer system using microprocessors, but was never released. It included a new operating system called Trix. ...more on Wikipedia about "NuMachine" shortopedia - now! shortopedia
Paintbox is a computer workstation made by Quantel for image and video manipulation. ...more on Wikipedia about "Paintbox"
PERQ, often referred to as the Three Rivers PERQ, was an influential computer workstation first released in 1979. The workstation was conceived by five former Carnegie Mellon University employees that formed the startup Three Rivers Computer Corporation in 1974. One of the founders, Brian Rosen, had worked at Xerox PARC on the Dolphin. The system was a direct descendant of the original workstation, the Xerox Alto. PERQ was the first commercially available personal workstation. The company entered into a deal with ICL, a British computer company, for European distribution, and eventually some co-development and manufacturing. The origin of the name "PERQ" is from the word perquisite. Three Rivers Computer Company went out of business in 1986, largely due to competition from upstart workstation manufacturers such as Sun Microsystems and Silicon Graphics. ...more on Wikipedia about "PERQ"
The Pixar Image Computer was a graphics designing computer made by Pixar in May 1986, intended for the high-end visualization markets, such as medicine. The machine sold for $135,000.00, but also required a $35,000.00 workstation from Sun Microsystems or Silicon Graphics. The system did not sell well, and by 1987 Pixar only had a handful of buyers. In an attempt to gain a foothold in the medical market, Pixar donated ten machines to leading hospitals and sent marketing people to doctor's conventions. However, this had little effect on sales, despite the machine's ability to perform CAT scans and show perfect images of the human body. By 1988 Pixar had only sold 120 Pixar Image Computers, and eventually sold the machine to Vicom for $2M. ...more on Wikipedia about "Pixar Image Computer"
The Quantel Paintbox is a dedicated computer system for performing real time manipulation of video, and creating graphics. Following its initial launch in 1981, it revolutionised the production of television graphics, but is still in widespread use today. Its capabilities have kept pace with the state of the art in software and hardware design. ...more on Wikipedia about "Quantel Paintbox"
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