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The docudrama Pirates of Silicon Valley is based on this book. Goldberg, Adele, ed. (1988). A History of Personal Workstations. Addison Wesley. Grossman, Wendy (1996). Remembering the Future: Interviews from Personal Computer World. Springer. ISBN 3-540-76095-4. Laing, Gordon (2004). Digital Retro: The Evolution and Design of the Personal ...
A NeXTcube workstation, the same type on which the World Wide Web was created by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in Switzerland. [1] A workstation is a special computer designed for technical or scientific applications. [2] Intended primarily to be used by a single user, [2] they are commonly connected to a local area network and run multi-user ...
The history of computing hardware starting at 1960 is marked by the conversion from vacuum tube to solid-state devices such as transistors and then integrated circuit (IC) chips. Around 1953 to 1959, discrete transistors started being considered sufficiently reliable and economical that they made further vacuum tube computers uncompetitive .
The Compaq Professional Workstation was a family of workstations produced by Compaq. Introduced in late October 1996, the first entry in the family featured single or dual Pentium Pro processors. Later entries featured Pentium IIs and IIIs ; the XP1000 was the only non- x86 based entry, featuring a DEC Alpha processor.
Like server computers, they are often connected with other workstations. [55] The main form-factor for this class is a Tower case, but most vendors produce compact or all-in-one low-end workstations. Most tower workstations can be converted to a rack-mount version.
HP came to dominate the Wintel workstation segment with the Kayak by the turn of the millennium. However, in late 2001, they were eclipsed by Dell and their Precision workstations. [9] In Europe, HP rebranded the Kayak as the HP Workstation with their x4000 model in 2001. [10] By 2002, HP followed suit in the United States. [11]
DECpc was a wide-ranging family of desktop computers, laptops, servers, and workstations sold by Digital Equipment Corporation.The vast majority in the family are based on x86 processors, although the APX 150 uses DEC's own Alpha processor.
From 1980 to 1987, Apollo was the largest manufacturer of network workstations. [citation needed] Its quarterly sales exceeded $100 million for the first time in late 1986, [5] and by the end of that year, it had the largest worldwide share of the engineering workstations market, at twice the market share of the number two, Sun Microsystems. [6]