Compaq Professional Workstation
DeveloperCompaq
TypeWorkstation
Release dateNovember 1996 (1996-11)
Discontinued2002 (2002)
CPU

The Compaq Professional Workstation was a family of workstations produced by Compaq. Introduced in late October 1996, the first entry in the family featured single or dual Pentium Pro processors. Later entries featured Pentium IIs and IIIs; the XP1000 was the only non-x86 based entry, featuring a DEC Alpha processor. Compaq aimed the Professional Workstation at computer-aided design users, software programmers, multimedia designers and financial workers. While workers of those fields primarily ran Unix-based operating systems on workstations at the time, the Compaq Professional Workstation came preinstalled with Windows NT 4.0 Workstation (later Windows 2000 Professional).[1] The line was discontinued in 2002.

Models

Compaq Professional Workstations
Model Processor(s) Clock speed
(MHz) 		Max.
RAM 		L2
cache 		Date
introduced
5000 Pentium Pro (dual or single) 200 512 MB November 1996[2][3]
5100 Pentium II (dual or single) 300 512 MB 512 KB September 1997[4][5]
6000 Pentium II (dual or single) 266–300 256 MB 512 KB June 1997[6][7][8]
8000 Pentium II (dual) 200 256 MB 512 KB June 1997[7]
AP200 Pentium II 350, 400, or 450 384 MB July 1998[9][10]
AP400 Pentium II (dual) 350 or 400 1 GB July 1998[9]
AP500 Pentium II (dual or single) 400 or 450 1 GB August 1998[11][10]
SP700 Pentium II Xeon 400 or 450 4 GB October 1998[9][10]
AP550 Pentium III (dual or single) 866 1 GB November 1999[12][13]
1000 XP Alpha 21264 500–667 512 MB 4 MB 2000[14][15][16]
SP750 Pentium III Xeon 800 or 866 or 1000 4 GB 256 KB 2001[12][17]

References

  1. ^ Jacobs, April (November 4, 1996). "Compaq stations debut". Computerworld. IDG Communications. 30 (45): 49 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ Staff writer (November 4, 1996). "Compaq Takes Second Crack at Workstation Market – Courts Key Software Vendors and Resellers". Computergram International. GlobalData – via Gale OneFile.
  3. ^ Linthicum, David S. (April 22, 1997). "Workstation Wars". PC Magazine. Ziff-Davis. 16 (8): 101–139 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ Staff writer (September 15, 1997). "Compaq Keeps Up the Pressure on Sun with New Workstations". Computergram International. GlobalData – via Gale OneFile.
  5. ^ Kvitka, Andre (November 10, 1997). "IBM, Compaq PCs step into the workstation market". InfoWorld. IDG Communications. 19 (45): 148 – via Google Books.
  6. ^ Staff writer (June 10, 1997). "Compaq Intros Pro Workstation 6000". Newsbytes. The Washington Post Company – via Gale OneFile.
  7. ^ a b Bridoy, Dan (June 16, 1997). "Compaq powers up Wintel systems". InfoWorld. IDG Communications. 19 (24): 32 – via Google Books.
  8. ^ Metz, Cade (September 23, 1997). "Designing Innovation". PC Magazine. Ziff-Davis. 16 (16): 56 – via Google Books.
  9. ^ a b c Rowe, Scott (July 9, 1998). "Compaq launches new AP and SP professional workstation lines". M2 Presswire. Normans Media – via Gale OneFile.
  10. ^ a b c Compaq Computer Corporation (January 11, 1999). "Compaq Desktops and Workstations advertisement". InfoWorld. IDG Communications. 21 (2): 2 – via Google Books.
  11. ^ Whelan, Carolyn (August 31, 1998). "Compaq Rolls Workstation". Electronic News. Sage Publications. 44 (2234): 34–35 – via Internet Archive.
  12. ^ a b Sanchez, Jana (November 8, 1999). "Compaq aims to simplify data access with wireless LAN". InfoWorld. IDG Communications. 21 (45): 54-IA4.
  13. ^ Howard, Bill (September 1, 2000). "Summary of Features: 2D Workstations". PC Magazine. Ziff-Davis. 19 (15): 180 – via Google Books.
  14. ^ "Compaq Professional Workstation XP1000". Centre for Computing History. n.d. Archived from the original on June 1, 2017.
  15. ^ Pendery, David (October 12, 1998). "Backing Alpha bet". InfoWorld. IDG Communications. 20 (41): 1, 17 – via Google Books.
  16. ^ Athow, Desire (March 14, 2014). "Compaq Alpha XP1000 workstation specs and pictures". TechRadar Pro. Future US. Archived from the original on April 15, 2014.
  17. ^ Staff writer (July 20, 2001). "Compaq Professional Workstation SP750 QuickSpecs". Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Archived from the original on December 13, 2021.
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