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High specification computer often linked to a file server.
- Used by engineers, Scientists, requiring the processing of large amounts of data,
usually graphical.
- Sophisticated display screens, high resolution colour/graphics
- Often running Windows NT or UNIX
- Intel based workstations (1998)
- Dual high end processors
- 128-512MB RAM
- High speed SCSI drives
- High end 3D graphics cards (costing approx $4,500)
- Run multi-threaded applications (use multiple processors).
- Example.
- (Jan 1999) Silicon graphics 320, starts at $7,900
- Up to 2 x 450 MHz PII MMX, up to 28GB Hard Disk,
- (Jan 99) Silicon graphics 540 starts at $14,875
- Up to 4 x Xeon processors.
- (Sep 1998) Dell Precision 610 $11,031
 (1998, Sep) "Intel goes inside the Workstation ... NZ PC World
- Examples
: Silicon Graphics, Sun, Apollo, Hewlett-Packard , Dell
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Configurations (Microcomputers)