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The bleeding edge.(viewpoint Tech)

Computer Graphics World

| January 01, 2006 | Maher, Kathleen | COPYRIGHT 2006 PennWell Publishing Corp. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Is there any term more accurate than "bleeding edge" when talking about workstations? It seems there is bleeding going on everywhere in the industry. Vendors, locked in fierce com petition, are pushing technology just to get a few benchmark points ahead. And certainly, graphics professionals battling deadlines and escalating pixel resolutions are bleeding all over the place.

The workstation has undergone a profound evolution in the last decade. Once the unassailable domain of Unix/ RISC systems, the workstation classification now includes machines based on processors from Intel, AMD, IBM/Apple, Sun, Hewlett-Packard, SGI-MIPS, and even Alpha, the first 64-bit ...

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