SGI) as "deskside workstations". And
rightly so, I would say: they're
specifically designed for workstation use.
OK,
WHAT IS A "WORKSTATION"?
One old defintion was the '3M' one : Megapixel, Megabyte, MIPS.
That is a personal system with a built-in bitmapped display with 1
million pixels ; 1 megabyte of memory and 1 (VAX) MIPS of CPU performace.
I did say it was an old definition :-)
Incidentally, one of the first machiens to be conidered to be a
workstation, the PERQ, didn't quite meet that definition. The display 12
768*1024 pixels.
-tony