APL in the Workstation Environment Jerry R. Turner Manager, International Sales STSC, Inc. (301) 984-5112 INTRODUCTION WHAT IS A WORKSTATION? Workstations have become a key part of the corporate computing environment. Formerly the province of scientists, researchers, and engineers, high-powered workstations are becoming common on Wall Street, in oil companies, and even in traditionally conservative industries such as insurance. Computer industry analysts expect this trend to continue in the next few :years. They see a widespread move away from the traditional way of computing -- using corporate mainframes -- towards a more distributed method of computing, using departmental computers networked to mainframes and desktop computers. Workstations, located firmly in the middle between desktop mach.ines and mainframes in their computing speed and storage capacity, are bound to play an important role in this evolution. Current technology lags behind the vision of true, seamless PC-to-workstation-to-mainframe connectivity. What one sees today in the :IBM world is a host of incompatible operating environments, from MS-DOS through AIX and S/3X-OS to ME/Is0 and VM/CMS, making it difficult to share programs and data. Other vendors are making strides towards unifying these different kinds of computing platforms; for instance, Digital Equipment s Vax architecture runs
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APL in the workstation environment
Turner, J. R.
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Association for Computing Machinery – Jul 1, 1989
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