Linked by Anton Klotz on Thu 18th Jan 2007 18:16 UTC
This article tries to explain why workstations are no longer an appropriate tool for the present working environment, what the alternatives are, and what consequences it has for the development of OSes.
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2006-04-21
SGI is pretty much dead. anything else wasn't really a "workstation" but merely a unix pc.
Well, SCO boxes were "Unix PC's". Compare the state of Sun, DEC, DG, HP and IBM hardware in the 90s, and the software that was run on them, with the equivalent Amiga/Mac/PC offerings and I think you will agree HP, DEC, Sun, DG and IBM Unix boxen were "workstations" at the time.
And of course IBM and Sun Unix workstations are still around, as are HP-UX boxen if anyone wants them.