From: Bill Pechter <pechter_at_bg-tc-ppp1366.monmouth.com>
>Personally, I think DEC pretty much invented the workstation...
>Actually GT40's were pretty much early cad stations for pc cad
>(Racal-Redac) had some pretty good software on them.
>
>Wasn't the PDP1 pretty much an engineering workstation with Vector
>(rather than raster) based CRT.
Yep and most of the later machines also had similar display systems
or better.
>Apollo and Sun were pretty much an alternative to the higher
>priced Vaxes with add-on graphics like the VSV11 unit.
Untill DEC caught on then the workation wars were on.
Allison
Received on Sun May 13 2001 - 21:04:23 BST