Then came an 10-year hiatus during which he had high-profile successes (buying Pixar Animation Studios from George Lucas before they made it big with "Toy Story") and failures (founding NeXT Computer, whose pricey, cube-shaped computer workstations never caught on).

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Among the facility's chief design features on the ground floor is the digital learning suite: a large, flexible space that can be divided into two discrete media labs or function as an open auditorium for up to 100 students, with specially designed mobile computer workstations.

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According to Silicon Graphics Computer Systems, a leading supplier of 3-D workstations, prices have fallen by a third every 12 to 18 months.

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The data will therefore be disseminated through a four-tiered system of computer centres, allowing them to be spread over thousands of individual workstations in dozens of universities around the world.

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TheTechnology Expertise, Access and Learning for all Texans (TEAL) project is working through 38 local library systems across Texas to install 2, 100 new workstations and upgrade 580 existing machines in more than 150 existing and new computer centers.

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Silicon Graphics Computer Systems ( SGIC - news - people ), a leading supplier of 3-D workstations, prices have fallen by a third every 12 to 18 months.

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