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Nothing killed the workstation market. It's still totally a thing. Lenovo, Dell, HP, Apple ... all of these companies will quite happily sell you a dual CPU mac
by NovemberWhiskey 6y ago
Nothing killed the workstation market. It's still totally a thing. Lenovo, Dell, HP, Apple ... all of these companies will quite happily sell you a dual CPU machine with masses of cores, oodles of ECC RAM, extremely high performance graphics with certified driver support etc.
All that's changed is that the architectures for workstations and "business class" desktop machines have converged, and the distinctive operating systems that were needed to support those older workstation architectures have gone away.
- wtracy 6y agoThe author seems to use the word "workstation" specifically to refer to machines running a proprietary Unix variant, usually using a specialty (non-x86) CPU architecture. What you're describing are workstation-class PC-compatibles, not workstations (as the author defines the term). What the author is really talking about is the death of systems where the hardware (sometimes all the way down to the CPU architecture) and the OS are produced by the same organization as a single, integrated solution targeted at a specific vertical.
- dragontamer 6y ago> What the author is really talking about is the death of systems where the hardware (sometimes all the way down to the CPU architecture) and the OS are produced by the same organization as a single, integrated solution targeted at a specific vertical. Isn't that the iPhone and iPad? EDIT: Even the camera sensors + DSP for processing is specially built for phones these days.
- mixmastamyk 6y agoArm licensee and not a workstation.