In September 1986, NEC announced an engineering workstation, the EWS4800, equipped with the UNIX OS, and a CISC (Complex Instruction Set Computer) microprocessor as its CPU. This machine was designed as an engineering workstation to improve the efficiency of a variety of software engineering tasks, including computer-aided engineering, scientific/engineering computation, experimental data collection and analysis, and software development.
Features
1) It allowed integrated use of all types of data: text, drawings, images, video and audio.
2) It was equipped with a dedicated high-speed graphics processor and a graphics processor for multi-window control, and this enabled high-speed drawing of 75,000 vectors per second and processing of a maximum of 48 windows.
3) It was equipped with a large 20-inch display, with high resolution of 1,280 by 1,024 dots.
| Announcement date | September 1986 | |
|---|---|---|
| CPU | MC68020(16MHz) | |
| Word length | 32-bit | |
| Main memory capacity | 8MB/16MB/32MB | |
| Graphics processor | Display | 16 colors |
| Color pallet | 343 colors | |
| Number of multiple windows | Max. 48 | |
| Graphics control | Display | 256 colors |
| Color pallet | 16 million colors | |
| Addressable points | 1,280x1,024 | |
