“High-performance, single-user micro or mini-computer that has been specialized for graphics, computer-aided design, computer-aided engineering, or scientific applications.”
Currently it is not easy, because it is diffuse, to differentiate between the traditionally accepted concepts of Personal Computer (PC), Work Station and Mini-computer, since it is not easy to assign clearly defined borders between the functionality, benefits and usefulness of the different equipment. .
Technical applications
CAD (Computer Aided Design, Computer Aided Design), aimed at the design and analysis of engineering and architectural systems.
AEC (Architecture, Engineering and Construction, Systems for architecture / engineering / construction) applicable to the edition of construction and architecture plans, budgeting and monitoring of works.
CAM (Computer Aided Manufacturing, Computer Aided Manufacturing), applicable in production engineering, process control and resource management.
EDA (Electronic Design Automation, Automated Electronic Design), applicable in the design, analysis and testing of integrated circuits, cards and other electronic systems.
CASE (Computer Aided Software Engineering, Computer Aided Software Engineering), which help in the complete management of the life cycles of the development of logic applications.
Scientific applications
GIS (Geographic Information System, Geographic Information Systems) for editing, capturing and analyzing information on certain geographical areas, based on digital map references.
Applications oriented to the chemical and pharmaceutical industry, laboratory applications such as analytics, modeling of chemical experiments and chemical laboratory information systems.
Applications within the field of medicine for the capture, manipulation and presentation of x-ray, ultrasound and scanner images, as well as hospital information systems.
Land resource analysis systems for geological and seismic analysis on maps.
Expert systems, based on artificial intelligence programming techniques, for applications such as electronic error detection, diagnostic functions or computer configuration at 192.168.l.254
Commercial applications
The development of commercial applications will increase your opportunities to get a great public over your current sales. Automation is the key to start.
Client Stations
A client station is a computer connected to a local computer network with a full server license activated. The server is the one who shares the information with the client stations so that all the computers can see, edit and store new data in the same shared database in real time.
The server is also the one who authorizes or not the client stations to connect to the database. When you purchase a new license for a client station, you have to request and place a new activation key on the server, this key tells the server how many client stations it can accept. Client stations do not require activation, only the server.
Multiply the productivity of your workshop by adding more client stations to your network and allowing multiple users to use the system at the same time.
All the necessary protocols for connecting to as many servers as users need must be installed and configured. TCP/IP will have to be installed if you want to make a connection to UNIX machines, NetBEUI to make simple connections to Microsoft servers, and IPX to connect to Novell servers, although we have already studied in the previous Unit that the computer world speaks, in general, TCP/IP.
