[Info-vax] Monitor for Alphastation 500

[Hans Bachner]

thedavegray at gmail.com schrieb am 07.09.2019 um 02:08:
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> One of the software packages is called "internet suite", so was being aimed at the GUI market.
> [snip]

Why? The Internet Product Suite also contained server software (web and 
mail servers) and several Unix and HTML related tools.

Several clients were part of the suite as well. Many workstations of 
that time did not come with on-board graphics. Several 2D and 3D capable 
graphic adapters with varying amounts of (expensive) memory were 
available at very different prices, so an office user could pick a 
cheaper graphics card than a user running a CAD application. It's a bit 
surprising though that it was possible to order a workstation without 
*any* graphics adapter.

Hans.