Hitachi announced the 3050 series of workstations/servers in April 1991. The series included a desktop model running on the Motorola MC68040 processor with a performance of 3.5 megaFLOPS and deskside models running on Hewlett-Packard’s 50 MHz RISC processor with a performance of 57 MIPS/15 megaFLOPS.
The series relied on industry standards, such as the X Window System, and international standards, such as POSIX. And since the 3050 models were developed on the OSF/Motif style guide, they had unified operating environments. The 3050 series also supported Hitachi’s window system, which prioritized compatibility with the 2050 series, a 16 Mbps Token Ring network, and a 10BASE-T LAN network.
| 3050LT | 3050 | 3050/R | 3050/Rsv | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enclosure | Laptop | Desktop | Deskside | |
| CPU | 68040(25MHz) | PA-RISC(50MHz) | ||
| Main memory | 16-48MB | 8-72MB | 16-112MB | 32-128MB |
| Operating system | UNIX | |||
| GUI | X Windows, Hitachi Motif (the 3050LT and 3050 had H-Windows) | |||
