26 Feb
2012
26 Feb
'12
1:50 p.m.
m?n 2012-02-20 klockan 21:29 +0000 skrev Tony Duell:
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
How about this:
the capacity to in the current publishing sw display an easily readable
A4 or folio format page of copy and being able to jump between pages
without latency.
Think about Frame/(that other big DTP package) on an Sun 1+ or Apollo
ws.
Current day manual writers/instruction booklet for your BMW or Scania
truck, what do they use ?
But this becomes mostly an question of sw architecture. The latency
issue is a problem for current Word.
SGI) as "deskside workstations". And
rightly so, I would say: they're
specifically designed for workstation use.
OK,
WHAT IS A "WORKSTATION"?