PCs and workstations

  • Authors:
  • Alfred Rosenblatt

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Spectrum
  • Year:
  • 1992

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Abstract

Developments during the past year are reviewed. As prices continued to fall and performance continued its upward trend, the line between PCs and workstations blurred further. Pen-based computers gained prominence, IC cards got a boost when the PCMCIA trade association came out with version 2.0 of its memory card standard, and multimedia stands poised to become a major market force. A, strategic alliance between Apple and IBM made news, and demand for the relatively new 2.5 in disk drives zoomed