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workstation

High-end computer designed for technical and scientific applications or for audio and video processing, mainly characterized by high computing power and large memory

Entitymarket segment class of computersQ192525

Also known as computer workstation · workstation computer

Instance of: market segment
, class of computers
Subclass of: desktop computer
, computer
Part of: terminal

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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 most commonly 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 beginning in the 1980s, and powered the 3D computer graphics revolution through the late 1990s.

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