2002 by
Prentice Hall, Inc.
13-18
“Platforms” for Group Support Systems
nAdvanced Workstations: run on IBM compatible
PCs or Apple Macintosh. In the future, more powerful workstations and high end PCs will be needed to handle the display, storage, and transfer of multimedia documents
nLocal Area Networks
(LAN): dominant communication infrastructure. High speed data transfer among workstations, continue development of client/server and cooperative processing architectures