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Dell workstations are old—20 years old

We celebrate Dell at Siggraph Jeff Clarke graduated from University of Texas at San Antonio in 1986 as a young engineer, bummed around for a while and finally convinced Michael Dell to hire him—he never left and this is Clarke’s 30th anniversary at Dell, few have been there longer. In 1996, Clarke was listening to his customers tell him they’d ...

Jon Peddie

We celebrate Dell at Siggraph Jeff Clarke graduated from University of Texas at San Antonio in 1986 as a young engineer, bummed around for a while and finally convinced Michael Dell to hire him—he never left and this is Clarke’s 30th anniversary at Dell, few have been there longer. In 1996, Clarke was listening to his customers tell him they’d really like find a lower cost workstation, and one that used a common OS like Windows instead of a privatized version of Unix. So, he did what any good engineer does—he built one; he’s built almost 18 million since. This
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