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Fans liked the 4.4-pound UltraLite for its trim size and portability, but it really
needed one of today's tiny hard drives. It used battery-backed DRAM (1 MB,
expandable to 2 MB) for storage, with ROM-based Traveling Software's LapLink to
move stored data to a desk top PC. Foreshadowing PCMCIA, the UltraLite had a
socket that accepted credit-card-size ROM cards holding popular applications like
WordPerfect or Lotus 1-2-3, or a battery-backed 256-KB RAM card.
Sun SparcStation 1
It wasn't the first RISK workstation, nor even the first Sun system to use Sun's
new SPARC chip. But the SparcStation 1 set a new standard for price/performance, at
a starting price of only $8,995 – about what you might spend for a fully configured
Macintosh. Sun sold lots of systems and made the words SparcStation and
workstation synonymous in many peoples minds.
The SparcStation 1 also introduced S-Bus, Sun's proprietary 32-bit synchronous
bus, which ran at the same 20-MHz speed as the CPU.
IBM RS/6000
Sometimes, when IBM decides to do something, it does it right. The RS/6000
allowed IBM to enter the workstation market. The RS/6000’s RISK processor chip
set (RIOS) racked up speed records and introduced many to term suprscalar. But its
price was more than competitive. IBM pushed third-party software support, and as a
result, many desktop publishing, CAD, and scientific applications ported to the
RS/6000, running under AIX, IBM's UNIX.
A shrunken version of the multichip RS/6000 architecture serves as the basis for
the single-chip PowerPC, the non-x86-compatible processor with the best chance of
competing with Intel.
Apple Power Macintosh
Not many companies have made the transition from CISC to RISK this well.
The Power Macintosh represents Apple's well-planned and successful leap to bridge
two disparate hardware platforms. Older Macs run Motorola's 680x0 CISK line, the
Power Macs run existing 680x0-based applications yet provide Power PC
performance, a combination that sold over a million systems in a year.
IBM ThinkPad 701С
It is not often anymore that a new computer inspires gee-whiz sentiment, but
IBM's Butterfly subnotebook does, with its marvelous expanding keyboard. The
701C's two-part keyboard solves the last major piece in the puzzle of building of
usable subnotebook: how to provide comfortable touch-typing.(OK, so the floppy
drive is sill external.) With a full-size keyboard and a 10.4-inch screen, the 4.5-pound
701С compares favorably with full-size notebooks. Battery life is good, too.

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