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You might be misremembering. The 3M (megapixel/MiB/MIPS) was a set goal of project Athena. http://web.mit.edu/acs/athena.html

Edit: 3M was not a set goal of project Athena (they merely meant to use such), but a term coined by Raj Reddy of CMU. The SUN-1 workstation was indeed an early machine meeting that requirement.



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