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Encyclopedia: Workstation

A workstation, such as a Unix workstation, RISC workstation or engineering workstation, is a high-end desktop or deskside microcomputer designed for technical applications. Workstations are intended primarily to be used by one person at a time, although they can usually also be accessed remotely by other users when necessary.

Workstations usually offer higher performance than is normally seen on a personal computer, especially with respect to graphics, processing power, memory capacity and multitasking ability.

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How to say "Workstation" in other languages:

	(Chinese)	工作站
	(Japanese)	ワークステーション
	(German)	Workstation
	(Spanish)	Estación de trabajo
	(French)	Station de travail
	(Italian)	Workstation

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Chameleon (computing)

Chameleon is a computer workstation design produced at ETH Zurich running the Oberon operating system...

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NOW

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Now

Now can mean: Network of Workstations Now (Steve Roach) NOW - the National Organization for Women...

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Network of Workstations

A NOW or Network of Workstations is a computer network which connects several computer workstations together, and by utilising special software it allows to use the network as a cluster. Berkeley... machines in the world at that time. This is considered as the birth of the network of workstations...

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Lilith computer

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MIMD

Multiple Instruction Multiple Data ( MIMD ) is a type of parallel architecture where many functional units perform different operations on different data. Examples would be a multiprocessor or transputer computer, or a network of workstations...

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MIPS OS

operating systems for RISC-based workstation-class computers. The MIPS OS, originally developed by... Graphics workstations. In 1987, Silicon Graphics switched from the Motorola 68000 architecture to the MIPS architecture and adopted the MIPS OS to its new line of graphical workstations, the 4D series...

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PAW

PAW is a three-letter abbreviation or three-letter acronym (TLA) that has been used for: Partnership for Animal Welfare Performance Automotive Warehouse Physics Analysis Workstation Professional Adventure Writer See also: paw...

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Apollo Computers

Apollo/Domain workstations in the 1980s. Along with Sun Microsystems, Apollo was one of the first vendors of graphical workstations in the 1980s. In 1981, the company unveiled the DN100 workstation, which used the Motorola 68000 microprocessor. Apollo workstations ran Aegis (later renamed Domain/OS), a...

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Color recovery

A technique used in HP's older workstation graphics cards to produce a 'near 24-bit' colour look from an 8-bit framebuffer. Color recovery does rely on software support which is provided by some of HP's graphics libraries. The technique is not perfect and can result in artifacts with certain...

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