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Aucbvax.1793 fa.apollo utzoo!duke!decvax!ucbvax!DREIFU@WHARTON-10 Wed Jun 17 03:12:09 1981 What is a Workstation?

Reading through the Xerox Press releases on the new SAM (read: Simply Amazing Machine), I chanced upon an interesting point;

Personal workstations are quite variable in power and facility.

Intelligent terminals (read: Tektronix 4027, ISC all series, the HDS Concept) have a micro processor in them. These micro's can be used to run CP/M or similar operating systems. The Heathkit H19 I also think has a micro 8080 chip.

HDS has been running CP/M on a test basis, and will probably be releasing a full-blown intelligent/local Micro based terminal.

The SAM appears to be the first "real" workstation that will commercially fall into this category. Will computer terminals all go away, and people begin to use micro's -- as a result? Then, wont we be not working on terminals anymore, but personal computer/workstations exclusively?

/Hank

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