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The Return of the Unix Workstation (Now with AI)

A veteran UNIX user recounts the evolution from 1990s RISC workstations to modern ARM-based AI workstations, highlighting his migration from a Mac Studio running Asahi Linux to a Dell Pro Max GB10 (NVIDIA DGX Spark) that combines a 20-core ARM CPU with a powerful GPU for AI workloads, enabling local AI agent deployment and data science tasks.

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  • The author traces the history of UNIX workstations from 1990s RISC machines to modern ARM-based systems.
  • Apple's transition to ARM (M1) revived the concept of powerful RISC UNIX workstations, now running Linux via Asahi.
  • The NVIDIA DGX Spark (Dell Pro Max GB10) offers a purpose-built RISC UNIX workstation with 1 petaFLOP AI performance.
  • The author uses the GB10 as his main workstation, running local AI agents (NemoClaw) and models for development and data science.

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