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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 ...