Unix workstations were powerful computers for science and 3D animation, popular in the '80s and '90s. Workstations had advanced features like high-res monitors, faster processors, and RISC processors.

The wildfire for super-cheap PCs is now smoldering, but Sun plans to release a Unix workstation that indicates the company is still feeling the heat. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 ...

IBM on Thursday proclaimed itself fastest of the fast in low end Unix uniprocessor workstations. The company announced a pair of additions to its entry-level RS/6000 44 P Model 170 Unix workstation, ...

If most people were to choose one word to sum up workstation computers, it would be "unique." Back in the 1980s, when computers were either mammoth mainframes and minis or low-powered PCs, workstation ...

The company debuts a new, budget-minded Unix workstation. But as its influence grows in the Unix market, the market itself is dwindling. Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, where he ...

Competition in the workstation market is heating up as IBM unveiled its latest offering, the UNIX-based RS/6000 44 P Model 170 - proclaiming it the world's fastest low-end UNIX-based computing ...

Linux graphics performance is affected by your choice of graphics hardware, video driver and graphics interface. Let's take a look at the open-source XFree86 server, the commercial Xi server, ATI Fire ...

Nvidia on Wednesday debuted its GRID Visual Computing Appliance, a device that lets businesses deliver ultra-fast GPU performance to any Windows, Linux or Mac client on their network. Nvidia ...

VMware’s desktop virtualization software for Macs, Windows PCs, and Linux are being upgraded today to support Windows 10 and new features to boost performance. VMware Fusion for Macs is up to version ...