20 Feb
2012
20 Feb
'12
8:22 p.m.
SGI) as "deskside workstations". And rightly
so, I would say: they're
specifically designed for workstation use.
OK,
WHAT IS A "WORKSTATION"?
One day, one of our newer "fresh out of UC" (SCHEME) instructors came
running into the CIS lab (50 PCs, 6 Macs) shouting, "We're getting SUN
COMPUTERS! We're getting SUN COMPUTERS!"
It turned out that she had just gotten word that there were three
"Multimedia Workstations" for us on the loading dock!
A week later, two of them arrived (an administrator had snagged one
because it was shinier than what they had, although their old stuff would
always disappear rather than end up with us)
Each one was in a three foot by four foot by one foot box. "Some
assembly required"
Yep. A "Multimedia Workstation" was a shiny computer desk on wheels.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com