Like a prima donna basking in applause, the personal computer has long held center stage in the electronics world. But now the limelight is shifting to a more glamorous cousin: the workstation. Small enough to fit on a desktop, the workstation may look like a personal computer, but it acts more like a powerful mainframe. Says Charles Boesenberg, executive vice president of MIPS Computer Systems, one of the many players in the fiercely competitive workstation market: "What we've done is put the power and capability of an ocean liner into a speedboat."
Workstations are easily the fastest-growing segment of the computer...
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