About 30, 000 workstation computers are back online at Saudi Aramco after a virus hit the world's largest oil producer.

BBC: Saudi Aramco oil giant recovers from virus attack

Workstation computers took out the once-mighty minicomputer industry rather swiftly during a five-year period from the late 1980s to the early 1990s.

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