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NT killed the workstation market. Once you saw the applications ported to NT (CAD, GIS, 3D graphics), people realized they could run them on much cheaper PC's.
by bluedino 6y ago
NT killed the workstation market.
Once you saw the applications ported to NT (CAD, GIS, 3D graphics), people realized they could run them on much cheaper PC's. You would be able to buy 4 Pentium II's running NT for what a single Sun/SGI would cost. Hell you could buy two PC workstations for what a graphics upgrade cost on the SGI machine.
- vidanay 6y agoYou could buy 20 x86 workstations for the cost of a EDS/Unigraphics workstation (Running on DEC Alpha)
- kevin_thibedeau 6y agoAnd you could always use a Hummingbird X server to run critical apps remotely off the *nix servers.