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Workstation

A workstation is a special computer designed for technical or scientific applications. Intended primarily to be used by a single user, they are commonly connected to a local area network and run multi-user operating systems. The term workstation has been used loosely to refer to everything from a mainframe computer terminal to a PC connected to a…

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Modern workstations

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Workstation

Nodes177
Edges176
Triples244
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.011299
Components1

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Workstation

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related to Decline · 54
Workstation → Also, Although SCSI, BSD, By, CAD, CGI, CISC, Even, GB, Gbit/s, GeForce, GPU, Hardware, High-performance CPUs, High-performance/high-capacity, High-speed, However, IBM, IBM PC, IBM PCs
related to 1980s: rise in popularity · 41
Workstation → Another, Apollo, Apollo Computer, Apollo DN2500, At, BYTE, CAD, Competition, CPU, DARPA's VLSI Project, Data General, DEC, Hewlett-Packard, HP, IBM PS/2 Model, In, InfoWorld, Intel, It, Lotus
related to Market position · 28
Workstation → A/UX, All, Another, CAD, CPU, CPUs, ECC, For, GPU, IBM's POWER4, In, Infini-D, Intel Xeon, Macintosh IIci, Macintosh IIcx, Macintosh Quadra, Macintoshes, Many, Motorola, Nvidia GeForce
related to Decline of RISC workstations · 15
Workstation → By January, December, Hewlett-Packard, HP, IBM, IntelliStation POWER, January, MIPS-based SGI Fuel, October, PA-RISC-based, RISC-based, SGI, SGI Tezro, Sun Microsystems, Sun Ultra SPARC
related to Origins and development · 12
Workstation → Built, CADET, I/O, IBM, In, It, One, PC, The, This, To, Workstations
related to Thin clients · 12
Workstation → CPU, Dependent, However, In, IT, PCs, Some, Sun Ray, Sun's, These, This, Workstations
related to 3M computer · 8
Workstation → Another, IBM Personal Computer, In, KB, Raj Reddy, The, This, Throughout
related to x86-64 · 8
Workstation → FreeBSD, Linux, Most, Operating, Solaris, Some, These, Windows
related to External links · 4
Workstation → Media, Wikimedia Commons, Wiktionary-logo-en-v2, Workstations
related to GPU workstations · 3
Workstation → AMD, Modern, NVIDIA GPUs

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workstations computer graphics ibm early systems pcs pc operating market hardware 1990s 1980s 3d system software risc memory processors performance

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Workstationis aspecial computer designed for technical or scientific applications0.90text
Sun Microsystemsinstance ofbut most commonly refers to the class of hardware offered by several current and defunct companies0.80text
Silicon Graphicsinstance ofbut most commonly refers to the class of hardware offered by several current and defunct companies0.80text
Apollo Computerinstance ofbut most commonly refers to the class of hardware offered by several current and defunct companies0.80text
DECinstance ofbut most commonly refers to the class of hardware offered by several current and defunct companies0.80text
HPinstance ofbut most commonly refers to the class of hardware offered by several current and defunct companies0.80text
NeXTinstance ofbut most commonly refers to the class of hardware offered by several current and defunct companies0.80text
and IBM beginning in the 1980sinstance ofbut most commonly refers to the class of hardware offered by several current and defunct companies0.80text
and powered the 3D computer graphics revolution through the late 1990s.In their heydayinstance ofbut most commonly refers to the class of hardware offered by several current and defunct companies0.80text
workstations offered higher performance specifications than mainstream personal computersinstance ofbut most commonly refers to the class of hardware offered by several current and defunct companies0.80text
especially in terms of processinginstance ofbut most commonly refers to the class of hardware offered by several current and defunct companies0.80text
graphicsinstance ofbut most commonly refers to the class of hardware offered by several current and defunct companies0.80text

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