That's part of why old-style workstations died: Everyday desktop computers rose to meet them, and suddenly they couldn't claim to have any technical advantages

That's part of why old-style workstations died: Everyday desktop computers rose to meet them, and suddenly they couldn't claim to have any technical advantages to justify their pricetags. I'm not saying the Quadra in specific was on a level with the NeXTcube in specific on all fronts, but over the course of the 1990s that leveling process helped sweep away the workstation as a completely independent class of system.