HP TO EXPAND HP VISUALIZE WORKSTATION FAMILY.Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif., plans to expand its HP VISUALIZE workstation family with a new line of high- performance Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. (R) workstations based on Intel's new 450MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. , 500MHz and 550MHz Pentium(R) III and Pentium III The successor to the Pentium II from Intel. Introduced in the spring of 1999 at 500 MHz, the Pentium III architecture was similar to the Pentium II with the addition of 70 new instructions optimized for multimedia (see SSE). Xeon processors. The new HP VISUALIZE Personal Workstation Same as personal computer or workstation. family will complement HP's broad line of workstation solutions, which include the HP VISUALIZE family of UNIX system Noun 1. UNIX system - trademark for a powerful operating system UNIX, UNIX operating system operating system, OS - (computer science) software that controls the execution of computer programs and may provide various services workstations, and the industry-leading HP Kayak PC Workstations. The new workstations are ideally suited for technical and creative customers whose design work requires superior graphics and application performance in a Windows NT-based environment. "The Windows NT-based workstation market has evolved into two distinct yet synergistic segments, which are characterized by volume and value- added business models," said Patty Azzarello, worldwide marketing manager of HP's Workstation Systems Division. "While our award-winning HP Kayak PC Workstation family continues to be the market's volume leader, we will soon be unveiling a new HP VISUALIZE Personal Workstation family, which we expect to set the standard for graphics, application performance and system design." HP has also introduced the HP Kayak XU PC Workstation with Intel's newest 500MHz and 550MHz Pentium III Xeon processors (see today's related announcement). These systems will deliver excellent performance to software developers, design engineers, financial analysts and multimedia authoring professionals. In 1998, for the second year in a row, HP shipped more systems than any other vendor in the combined worldwide UNIX system and Windows NT-based workstation market, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. International Data Corp. (IDC). HP also is No. 1 in branded Windows NT-based workstation shipments. Information about HP VISUALIZE workstations can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.hp.com/go/visualize. Information about HP Kayak PC Workstations can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.hp.com/go/kayak. For more information, call (781)221-5163. |
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