20 Jan
1999
20 Jan
'99
2:36 p.m.
At 08:07 PM 1/20/99 -0500, Doug wrote:
Yes, Xerox is famous for mismarketing, but are you
saying that a
mouse-driven bitmapped networked 8010 isn't a workstation because of where
it was on a price sheet?
No, I'm saying that the mouse-driven bitmapped networked 8010 wasn't a
workstation because it was never sold, or converted as such. Just for
reference, when I use the term "Workstation" my definition is as follows:
Megapixel+ bitmapped display is primary interface device.
General purpose OS.
Software development is hosted on the machine.
1+ Megabytes of RAM
1+ MIPs execution speed.
This is not the definition that is applied today (it tends to track Sun,
HP, and IBM's offerings as the definition)
I forget the number: either 1000 or 2000 Altos were
made and "seeded"
various universities. Probably made a bigger dent than the Sun 1, and
much earlier.
We differ in our analysis of the "dent."
Probably true if you ignore the Alto. And the Terak
was a PDP-11/03 with
a bitmapped display around 1979/1980 IIRC. They were quite popular at
UCSD and UCI, at least.
Apollo came out with their box in 1980 as well I believe.
--Chuck