* Tight integration between the OS and the hardware: Workstation vendors both design the hardware and maintain the Unix operating system variant that runs on it.

Nevertheless, there are several commercial x86 virtualization products, such as VMware vSphere, VMware Workstation, Parallels, Microsoft Hyper-V Server, and Microsoft Virtual PC.

Contemporary remixes are often produced in a Digital Audio Workstation ( DAW ), which allow producers to reorganize tracks and apply various effects.

Corresponding Windows services are the " Server Service " ( for the server component ) and " Workstation Service " ( for the client component ).

VST plugins are generally run within a Digital Audio Workstation, providing the host application with additional functionality.

Simple smartphone-based DAWs, called Mobile Audio Workstation ( MAWs ), are also available, used for example by journalists for recording and editing on location.

Workstation GPUs are even faster, and are the basis for much of the production volume visualization used in medical imaging, oil and gas, and other markets ( 2007 ).

BHyVe, VMware Workstation and VirtualBox are examples of Type 2 hypervisors.

There are parallels between the market segmentation used to sell the Quadro line of products to Workstation ( DCC ) markets and the Tesla line of products to engineering and HPC markets.

Although no SGI Visual Workstation was ever released with a CPU running higher than 700 MHz, some hobbyists have been able to run faster processors.

Parallels Workstation is able to virtualize a full set of standard PC hardware, including:

However, due to the 68010's small speed boost over the 68000 and its support for virtual memory it can be found in a number of smaller Unix systems, both with the 68451 MMU ( in the Torch Triple X ), and with a custom MMU ( such as the Sun-2 Workstation, AT & T UNIX PC, the NCR Tower XP and early HP9000s like the Model 300 and 310 ) and various research machines.

Life Sciences Experiments and facilities on IML-2 include: Aquatic Animal Experiment Unit ( AAEU ) in Rack 3, Biorack ( BR ) in Rack 5, Biostack ( BSK ) in Rack 9, Extended Duration Orbiter Medical Program ( EDOMP ) and Spinal Changes in Microgravity ( SCM ) in the Center Isle, Lower Body Negative Pressure Device ( LBNPD ), Microbial Air Sampler ( MAS ), Performance Assessment Workstation ( PAWS ) in the middeck, Slow Rotating Centrifuge Microscope ( NIZEMI ) in Rack 7, Real Time Radiation Monitoring Device ( RRMD ) and the Thermoelectric Incubator ( TEI ) both in Rack 3.

On many Alpha computer systems – for example, the Digital Personal Workstation – both SRM and ARC could be loaded onto the EEPROM which held the boot firmware.

In 1996, Rome Labs contracted Software Productivity Solutions ( SPS ) to further enhance REE to create " a commercial quality REE that supports requirements specification, simulation, user interface prototyping, mapping of requirements to hardware architectures, and code generation …" This system is named the Advanced Requirements Engineering Workstation or AREW.

It is available in a Live CD format that allows it to be used on a computer without installing it on the hard drive, and in versions compatible with hardware emulation / virtualization systems, including Bochs, QEMU, VMware Workstation / Fusion, VirtualBox and Microsoft Virtual PC.

By now, several other software packages such as Virtual PC, VirtualBox, Parallels Workstation and Virtual Iron manage to implement virtualization on x86 hardware.

The 88110 made it into some versions of a never released NeXT machine, the NeXT RISC Workstation, but the project was canceled along with all NeXT hardware projects in 1993.

In 1989, IRCAM developed and maintained a concurrent version of Max ported to the IRCAM Signal Processing Workstation for the NeXT ( and later SGI and Linux ), called Max / FTS ( FTS standing for " Faster Than Sound ", and being analogous to a forerunner to MSP enhanced by a hardware DSP board on the computer ).

The IRCAM Signal Processing Workstation ( ISPW ) was a hardware DSP platform developed by IRCAM and the Ariel Corporation in the late 1980s.

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In 1995, Emagic ( then C-Lab ) bought the rights to the hardware design of the Atari Falcon computer and began producing their own versions due to continued demand for an inexpensive Digital Audio Workstation.

As Mac OS X can now be run natively on the x86 platform, including on non-Apple computers ( albeit in contravention of the Mac OS X license agreement ), interest in PearPC has waned since and attention now largely centers on running Mac OS X natively on x86 hardware or in virtualization software such as VMware Workstation.

The change to move the GDI to run in the same process context as its caller was prompted by complaints from NT Workstation users about realtime graphics performance, but this change put a considerable onus on hardware manufacturers to update device drivers.

The Atari Transputer Workstation was perhaps the highest profile HeliOS hardware, at least outside academia.

Parallels Workstation is a hardware emulation virtualization software, in which a virtual machine engine enables each virtual machine to work with its own processor, RAM, floppy drive, CD drive, I / O devices, and hard disk – everything a physical computer contains.

The Xerox Star Workstation introduced the first commercial GUI operating system as shown above.

* Parallels Workstation, virtualizes x86 to run unmodified PC operating systems

VMware Workstation, Server, and ESX take a more optimized path to running target operating systems on the host than emulators ( such as Bochs ) which simulate the function of each CPU instruction on the target machine one-by-one, or dynamic recompilation which compiles blocks of machine-instructions the first time they execute, and then uses the translated code directly when the code runs subsequently ( Microsoft Virtual PC for Mac OS X takes this approach.

The VMware product line can also run different operating systems on a dual-boot system simultaneously by booting one partition natively while using the other as a guest within VMware Workstation.

* Windows NT 4. 0 Workstation was designed for use as the general business desktop operating system.

The Parallels Workstation operating system calls its equivalent a " hypercall ".

Workstation manufacturers also tend to take a " balanced " approach to system design, making certain to avoid bottlenecks so that data can flow unimpeded between the many different subsystems within a computer.

The Visual Workstation series is the only commercially produced Intel 80386-compatible system which used an ARCS firmware, rather than the traditional PC BIOS used in most Intel 386-lineage machines.

Although VMware virtual machines run in user-mode, VMware Workstation itself requires the installation of various drivers in the host operating-system, notably to dynamically switch the Global Descriptor Table ( GDT ) and the Interrupt Descriptor Table ( IDT ).

Another attempt by SGI in the late 1990s to introduce its own family of Intel-based workstations running Windows NT ( see also SGI Visual Workstation ) proved to be a financial disaster, and shook customer confidence in SGI ’ s commitment to its own MIPS-based line.

At the beginning of the century, there was a phrase " database mining "™, trademarked by HNC, a San Diego-based company ( now merged into FICO ), to pitch their Data Mining Workstation ; researchers consequently turned to " data mining ".

The Atari Transputer Workstation ( also known as ATW-800, or simply ATW ) was a workstation class computer released by Atari Corporation in the late 1980s, based on the INMOS transputer.

A live CD ISO image can also be mounted by Virtual Machine software such as VirtualBox and VMware Workstation or can be converted to a Live USB using SYSLINUX.

Cubase is a music software product developed by German musical software and equipment company Steinberg for music recording, arranging and editing as part of a Digital Audio Workstation.

With this release, Audition ( which the music recording industry had once seen as a value-oriented home studio application, although it has long been used for editing by radio stations ) entered the professional Digital Audio Workstation market.

Supplanting the IWS was the AWS ( Advanced Workstation ) which itself was replaced by the NGEN ( New or Next Generation ) workstation and used by Prime Computer as a word processing workstation ; The " Prime Producer 100 ".

The PERQ 3A ( otherwise known as the ICL 3300 Advanced Graphics Workstation ) was developed by ICL as a replacement for the PERQ 2.

The SGI Visual Workstation was a series workstation computers manufactured by Silicon Graphics, Inc. designed to run Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Linux.

WTX ( for Workstation Technology Extended ) was a motherboard form factor specification introduced by Intel at the IDF in September 1998, for its use at high-end, multiprocessor, multiple-hard-disks server and workstations.

* A column by Mr. Protocol ( Michael O ' Brien ) in Sun Expert magazine ( now called Server / Workstation Expert ) used the word " Rosenesque " to describe a person who produces a substantial volume of e-mail messages large enough to overwhelm a local network.

Parallels Workstation is the first commercial software product released by Parallels, Inc., a developer of desktop and server virtualization software.

The Sun Blade series was supplanted by the Sun Java Workstation line in 2004.