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What (who) is workstation - definition

HIGH-END COMPUTER DESIGNED FOR TECHNICAL OR SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS
Workstations; Computer workstation; Workstaton; Workstation (computer hardware); Unix workstation; Unix workstations; Computer workstations; UNIX workstation; Display station; Workstation computers; Personal workstation; Computer graphics workstation; Graphics workstation; Graphics workstations; Graphical workstation; Workstation computer
  • [[Dell Precision]] 620MT with dual [[Pentium III]] processors
  • Dell Precision T3500 workstation with [[Intel]] [[Xeon]] processors
  • [[HP 9000]] model 425 workstation running [[HP-UX]] 9 and [[Visual User Environment]] (VUE)
  • [[HP 9000]] model 735 running [[HP-UX]] and the [[Common Desktop Environment]] (CDE)
  • CDE]]
  • [[Hewlett-Packard]] Z820, an [[x86-64]]-based workstation
  • Inside an HP Z820 workstation
  • A [[NeXTstation]] graphics workstation from 1990
  • [[SGI Indy]] graphics workstation
  • [[SGI O2]] graphics workstation
  • Six workstations: four HP Z620, one HP Z820, one HP Z420
  • SPARCstation 10]] with [[CRT monitor]] from the early 1990s
  • Solaris 10]]
  • Early [[Xerox]] workstation

workstation         
¦ noun
1. a desktop computer terminal, typically networked and more powerful than a personal computer.
2. an area where work of a particular nature is carried out, such as a location on an assembly line.
workstation         
<computer> A general-purpose computer designed to be used by one person at a time and which offers higher performance than normally found in a personal computer, especially with respect to graphics, processing power and the ability to carry out several tasks at the same time. (1995-05-04)
workstation         
also work station (workstations)
A workstation is a screen and keyboard that are part of an office computer system.
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Wikipedia

Workstation

A workstation is a special computer designed for technical or scientific applications. Intended primarily to be used by a single user, they are commonly connected to a local area network and run multi-user operating systems. The term workstation has been used loosely to refer to everything from a mainframe computer terminal to a PC connected to a network, but the most common form refers to the class of hardware offered by several current and defunct companies such as Sun Microsystems, Silicon Graphics, Apollo Computer, DEC, HP, NeXT, and IBM which powered the 3D computer graphics revolution of the late 1990s.

Workstations formerly offered higher performance than mainstream personal computers, especially in CPU, graphics, memory, and multitasking. Workstations are optimized for the visualization and manipulation of different types of complex data such as 3D mechanical design, engineering simulations like computational fluid dynamics, animation, medical imaging, image rendering, and mathematical plots. Typically, the form factor is that of a desktop computer, which consists of a high-resolution display, a keyboard, and a mouse at a minimum, but also offers multiple displays, graphics tablets, and 3D mice for manipulating objects and navigating scenes. Workstations were the first segment of the computer market to present advanced accessories, and collaboration tools like videoconferencing.

The increasing capabilities of mainstream PCs since the late 1990s have reduced distinction between the PCs and workstations. Typical 1980s workstations have expensive proprietary hardware and operating systems to categorically distinguish from standardized PCs. From the 1990s and 2000s, IBM's RS/6000 and IntelliStation have RISC-based POWER CPUs running AIX, and its IBM PC Series and Aptiva corporate and consumer PCs have Intel x86 CPUs. However, by the early 2000s, this difference largely disappeared, since workstations use highly commoditized hardware dominated by large PC vendors, such as Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and Fujitsu, selling x86-64 systems running Windows or Linux.

Examples of use of workstation
1. Physicians interpret the images using a Given Imaging workstation.
2. Previously, VerHeul was IBM‘s vice president of workstation and server computer development.
3. They were included in some models of Round Rock, Texas–based Dell‘s Latitude, Inspiron, XPS and Precision mobile workstation notebooks.
4. Kingston’s FB–DIMM modules are a high–speed, high–density memory solution for related technology workstation and server platforms.
5. The battery packs were included in some models of Dell‘s Latitude, Inspiron, XPS and precision mobile workstation notebooks.