I was a grad student at CMU at the time.  Raj Reddy told me back then that
it was 1 MIPS, 1 million pixels, 1 megabyte of RAM.

On Mon, Jan 30, 2023, 21:04 Mary Ann Horton <mah@mhorton.net> wrote:

> On 1/25/23 17:01, Larry Stewart wrote:
>
> Jim Morris left PARC and went off to CMU and began talking up the idea of
> the "3M" workstation.  One MIPs, One Megabyte of RAM, and One Million
> Pixels.
>
> The way I heard it, a workstation needed to have Menus, a Mouse, and a 1
> MIPS processor. It also had a megabyte of RAM, at least a megabit LAN, a
> megapixel of display, and cost about a megapenny.
>
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