Ultimately, Workstation features were included into common PCs, which led to the market segment for workstations declining. Moreover, the price difference between higher-end PCs and lower-end workstations shrank. While high-end Computers employed potent processors like the Intel Xeon, IBM Power, AMD Opteron, or Sun UltraSPARC - a powerhouse for computer-processing work - low-end Workstation used Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon 64 CPUs. These latter devices, which are also referred to as workstation class PCs, have capabilities like:
· code that corrects errors (EEC) memory assistance
· extra memory slots for modules that have been registered
· multiple sockets for processors with greater power
· several displays
· dependable operating systems (OSs) with cutting-edge capabilities
· performance-oriented graphics cards
The only workstations that use x86-64 CPUs and widely spread operating systems like Windows, Mac OS X, Solaris 10, and Linux are currently made by Sun Microsystems.
