Family of computer workstations
Compaq Professional Workstation Developer Compaq Type Workstation Release date November 1996 (1996-11 ) Discontinued 2002 (2002 ) CPU
TheCompaq Professional Workstation was a family of workstations produced byCompaq . Introduced in late October 1996, the first entry in the family featured single or dualPentium Pro processors. Later entries featuredPentium IIs andIIIs ; the XP1000 was the only non-x86 based entry, featuring aDEC Alpha processor. Compaq aimed the Professional Workstation atcomputer-aided design users, softwareprogrammers , multimedia designers and financial workers. While workers of those fields primarily ranUnix -based operating systems on workstations at the time, the Compaq Professional Workstation came preinstalled withWindows NT 4.0 Workstation (laterWindows 2000 Professional ).[ 1]
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