History of Computing exam question

From: Christopher Smith <csmith_at_amdocs.com>
Date: Thu Nov 29 16:31:22 2001

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Tapley [mailto:mtapley_at_swri.edu]

> Hans asked:

> >List the 20 to 30 systems you would display and briefly explain the
> >reason for choosing each.

> Fun question. Don't have time to really organize, but here's
> parts of my list:

[snip]

A few good ones you didn't mention:

Starbridge sytems HAL

A new production system that's completely FPGA based, and sports some pretty
impressive performance numbers.

Strictly speaking off-topic since it's a new machine...

SGI Iris 2000

Likely the first serious (depending on your definition of the word)
graphical workstation

Amiga (any)

Aside from being the epitome of desktop computing, it's the only system I
know that's survived <how many?> buy-outs

Regards,

Chris



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