workstation
Sign in to savethumb|A NeXTcube workstation, the same type on which the [[World Wide Web was created by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in Switzerland]]
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15 sectionsContents
- History
- Origins and development
- 1980s rise in popularity
- Thin clients
- 3M computer
- Decline
- Market position
- Modern market
- GPU workstations
- Decline of RISC workstations
- x86-64
- Definition
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|A NeXTcube workstation, the same type on which the [[World Wide Web was created by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in Switzerland]]
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 network, but the most common form refers to the class of hardware offered by several current and defunct companies such as Sun Microsystems, Silicon Graphics, Apollo Computer, DEC, HP, NeXT, and IBM which powered the 3D computer graphics revolution of the late 1990s.