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Below is a condensed version of the various systems that people
have made an attempt to respond to.  The interesting point(s)
that I have noticed are:
        
   o   Everyone's view of Personal Workstations is different.

   o   The machine(s) selected are wide ranged and apparently
       well suited for each application chosen.

   o   There is no wrong Personal Workstation machine.
        
   o   The technology of Personal Workstations is not well
       established as of yet.

   o   There is a demonstrated need for this technology,
       it appears to be one year away from general use.
                
   o   Most have:

          Large address space (or VM).
          Networking capabilities.
          Very good display hardware.
          Large local storage capacity.
          Micro-processor based.
          Contain an external locator type input device.

   o   Most are missing:
                
          Software tools to round out system.
          Market recognition.
          Gateway access, no gateway specifications.
          Too many parts, development schedules are
             full, revision schedules are bare.
          Consistency.  This is a result of different
             definitions of what a personal workstation
             is supposed to be.
                

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Below is a summary of the survey responses.  Eventually, each
machine will be examined in greater detail.  The intention is
to educate ourselves about personal workstations.  They sound
neat, but what they are under the surface is still a hot topic.


Machine                   Reason/Use                Comments
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Perq                  Spice Project                    15

Spice means: Scientific Personal Integrated Computing Environment.
___________________________________________________________________

Jericho               BBN - Lisp machines              30
                      need large address
                      space and powerful
                      LISP processing.
___________________________________________________________________

CTI                   For Alanthus.            16 workstations per
                                               cluster capability.
                                                  (no numbers)
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DEC-20/Ts computer    Large Scale OA proj.             20

Interesting for discussion purposes.
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Apollo                  Test/soft devt.        2 - max curr config.
                                               existing in field
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Xerox                   Xerox Corp devt.              50-60
                        MIT, and others: 
                        experimentation.
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Nu's                    MIT Workstation               15-25
                        prototype
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Wang WPS-25             Experiment                     1-4
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Extending the survey:

   Each technical group that has a machine; eg Xerox PARC,
   please designate one person to introduce their machine(s)
   with references in the literature.  For each agency or
   sponsored group, list the application and the reasons and
   any other relevant information about their specific problem,
   eg: general Office Management, or some application.  This
   should provide a good beginning in opening the discussions.


Henry Dreifus
DREIFUS@WHARTON-10

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