About Workstations

Workstations and Sun Microsystems

A further development of the personal computer are workstations. But this is just no precise definition possible, as it is not possible for home and personal computers to distinguish from one another. The only existing definition is: ‘A workstation is a relatively large, expensive personal computers, which will be used by professionals to work.’But the weaknesses of these single definition are already visible if you are calling into mind that workstations with multi-user operating system UNIX or derivatives thereof be operated, and it is quite normal that in universities and companies working at the same workstation. Some authors do not see Sun at the first workstation manufacturer. In the Xerox Star, the calculator, for the graphical user interface mid-seventies was invented, was called as the first ‘staff worstation. This concept was invented at Xerox. But the star was a bit too early because he sold virtually impossible.