The many separate operations are divided among the workstations.
The workstations, supplied by one vendor in Nassau and another in Suffolk, cost about $65,000 each.
By the time lunch was over, flour coated all the workstations at the culinary school in Brooklyn.
"I remember he had a chair with wheels, and was rolling among the workstations of the designers," he recalled.
On Sunday, Saudi Aramco said the workstations had been cleansed of the virus and restored to service.
Today, sitting at the workstations whose numbers served as their names, the women sipped Champagne from plastic cups, shaking their heads in disbelief.
This was the first of many large OEM agreements through which Sun built computers for companies that sold the workstations under their own labels.
Prints taken at the workstations can be compared electronically with those already on file, which means that the computer may someday connect a new suspect with an old unsolved case.
To understand just how intensely the fire burns, the researchers have mounted temperature-sensitive thermocouples on four spindly columns in the room and placed weight scales beneath the workstations to measure how the blaze eats away at them.
In what could be called stealth headhunting, Cisco, the leading Internet networking company, has found a way to attract new recruits directly from the workstations of their present jobs.
The peak burning rate of workstations that collapsed before they burned is about half that of intact workstations, probably because the material in the workstations was compressed and partly covered with the fireproof ceiling tiles.
