Word: uniforum
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Dates: during 1989-1989
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...computer industry. Sales reached $4.1 billion last year, a 53% increase over 1987. "This is a new era in computing," enthuses Data General President Edson de Castro. "It is the opportunity of a corporate lifetime." Last week the hottest, newest workstations went on display at San Francisco's UniForum. Once an obscure trade show, it attracted more than 22,000 computer buffs this year, and they were not disappointed. Some 250 exhibitors, from Apollo to Zenith, put their wares on display. Motorola rolled out a new line of workstations with up to 60 times the power of a PC. Data...
...desktop publishing. Says Mark Tolliver, workstation marketing manager at Hewlett-Packard: "When people see all the whizzy stuff these machines can do, they want to try them out." Most workstations now use a standardized internal operating system known as Unix (which explains why the trade show is called UniForum). The increasing prevalence of Unix in the computer industry makes it easier for workstations made by different manufacturers to communicate with one another and with larger machines...
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