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Fri Sep 4 09:05:58 1981
WorkS Digest V1 #13
>From DUFFEY@MIT-AI Fri Sep 4 08:58:22 1981
WorkS Digest Fri, 4 Sep 1981 Volume 1 : Issue 13
Today's Topics:
What is a Workstation?, Workstations - Xerox 1100
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Date: 3 Sep 1981 1703-PDT
From: Mike Leavitt <LEAVITT USC-ISI AT>
Subject: Works Book
One of the issues that has weaved in and out of the discussion
here is why certain small machines are *not* workstations.
It would seem interesting for the definitive (for this year)
workstation book to discuss this issue, as well, and perhaps
to indicate just what would need to be done to the more common
small machines for them to qualify as workstations. I'm cc'ing
the list on this because I want to hear the flames about how
an Apple can NEVER become a REAL workstation, before I give
specifics!
Mike <LEAVITT USC-ISI AT>
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Date: 3 Sep 1981 0959-PDT
From: Richard R. Cower <COWER SRI-KL AT>
Subject: Xerox
NO. 509
August 27, 1981
XEROX ANNOUNCES INTERLISP PROCESSOR
FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH
A compact computer system for use by research scientists in
artificial intelligence has been announced by Xerox Corporation.
The Xerox 1100 Scientific Information Processor includes a wide-
format, bit-map display, keyboard, and "mouse" pointing device.
It makes available the Interlisp-D software, an upward-compatible
extension of Interlisp, formerly available only on large, time-
shared computers.
The 1100 Interlisp system provides scientists with a computing
environment for conducting artificial intelligence research.
This research discipline has applications in engineering,
medicine, genetics, geophysics, robotics, and other fields.
Both the hardware and software were developed at the company's
Palo Alto Research Center in California. The system will be
marketed by Xerox Electro-Optical Systems in Pasadena, California.
Louis G. Karagianis, Vice-President of Marketing for Xerox
Electro-Optical Systems said, "The 1100 processor is intended for
use by research scientists in universities and large industrial
research laboratories, which are centers of activity for the
development of artificial intelligence techniques."
The system has 1.15 megabytes of memory and virtual address space
of 4 million 16-bit words. It also includes a 23-megabyte Shugart
disk drive and interfaces for the original Xerox 3-megabit-per-
second Ethernet, and for RS232 communications lines. All of this
equipment is housed in a 2.5-foot-high cabinet that fits under a
desk.
The display is a high-resolution unit with a 13" x 11" viewing
area (1024 x 808 pixels). The text portion of two pages can be
displayed side-by-side.
The Xerox 1100 includes a complete implementation of the Interlisp
virtual machine specification. In addition to the standard Inter-
lisp features, it offers new personal computer facilities, such
as a complete set of raster scan graphics operations and Xerox
Ethernet software.
Purchase price of the Xerox 1100 Scientific Information Processor
in the United States is $59,719; this includes a license for
use of the Interlisp-D software. Deliveries will begin in the
first-quarter of 1982.
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