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The workstation market is flying under the radar no longer. Dismissed by some as an inconsequential remnant of technology past, today's workstation bears little resemblance to the machine that forged the concept of high-performance, graphical computing on the desktop back in the 1980s. Although the physical makeup of the workstation has changed dramatically, demand for it hasn't, and the market is now experiencing a very healthy second life.
It's true: The traditional proprietary workstation of the past--machines built on homegrown RISC/Unix platforms--has all but disappeared, accounting for a miniscule 1 percent of systems shipped ...