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- ≤ BUSINESS, Page 55Business NotesCOMPUTERSPower Surge At IBM
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- Even with computer sales in a slump, one type of machine is
- zooming in popularity: the workstation. These computers, which
- pack nearly the power of a mainframe into a desktop housing,
- increased in sales 30% last year, to $6 billion. Their
- phenomenal success has proved embarrassing for American computer
- giant IBM, which accounts for less than 2% of the workstation
- market.
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- Now IBM hopes to grab a bigger chunk. Last week Big Blue
- introduced a top-of-the-line workstation series called the RISC
- System/6000. The new machines' advanced circuitry is based on
- IBM's own RISC (for reduced-instruction-set computer)
- technology, which simplifies a computer's processing steps to
- speed up its work. IBM's new workstations will execute between
- 25 million and 40 million instructions a second, 20% faster than
- some other brands.
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