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工作站最初的应用集中在计算密集及图形密集的工程技术领域。近年来,尽管部分中低档机开始进入商用领域,但工作站绝大部分市场依然是工程技术应用领域——机械设计、电子设计、科学计算、技术应用软件开发、地理信息系统、建筑设计、石油天然气的勘探等等方面,并因这一领域产品更新周期短、新技术的发展和应用软件功能的丰富,带来对计算机速度、图形性能、网络速率的更高要求,促进了各工作站厂商在微处理器、图形、网络甚至到多媒体等方面的基础开发。其结果,一方面使得工作站性能每年都在大幅度地增长,另一方面,工作站的价格越来越低,从而使得工作站在工程技术领域得到越来越广泛的应用。HP是工作站领域的领导厂商之一。从1986年HP公司推出世界上第一个实用RISC系统到现在,其HPPA-RISC已发展到了第七代,并且即将进入64位的第八代。1989年,HP购买了当时最为领先的Apollo工作站技术,在其上全部采用HP-UX的Unix操作系统,一直坚持开放系统的道路,到今天已发展到了第十代版本。HP公司无论从RISC芯片技术,还是从以XPG3、
The initial application of the workstation focused on computationally intensive and graphically intensive engineering. In recent years, although some medium and low-grade machines have begun to enter the commercial field, most of the workstations are still in the field of engineering and technical applications - mechanical design, electronic design, scientific computing, technology application software development, geographic information system, architectural design, oil and gas And other aspects of the field, and because of short product updates in this area, the development of new technologies and application software features rich, bringing computer speed, graphics performance, higher network speed requirements, and promote the workstation vendors in the micro Processor, graphics, network and even multimedia and other aspects of the basic development. As a result, on one hand, the performance of workstations has been greatly increased every year. On the other hand, the prices of workstations have been getting lower and lower, which makes workstations more and more widely used in engineering and technology. HP is one of the leading vendors in the field of workstations. From the 1986 HP company introduced the world’s first practical RISC system up to now, its HPPA-RISC has developed to the seventh generation, and is about to enter the 64-bit eighth generation. In 1989, HP purchased the most advanced Apollo workstation technology of its time, and on the Unix operating system with HP-UX on it all the time, it persisted in the open system and has reached the tenth generation today. HP companies in terms of RISC chip technology, or from XPG3,