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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Member since: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.
Member since:2006-11-15
Member since:2005-07-08
IBM doesn't really have a viable UNIX workstation. They sacked their entire 3D graphics team a while ago. If you enjoy the vintage feel of CDE cerca 1996 I guess you'll be quite happy. If you don't, you'll probably prefer telnet, or even better, use the networking support in the hypervisor to let you directly access the system console over virtual serial.
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2006-11-15
SGI is pretty much dead. anything else wasn't really a "workstation" but merely a unix pc.