[aklug] Re: Apollo Workstation

we had a few in BP in the early 90s.
it had a method of distributing account info kinda like NIS.
i seem to recall they were very expensive due to the high end graphics capa=
bility.
at that time in BP we had NeXT, vaxstations, decstations, sun, RS/6000s, et=
c etc etc.=20

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Subject: [aklug] Re: Apollo Workstation

On 07/02/2011 03:23 PM, Arthur Corliss wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Jul 2011, Christopher Howard wrote:
>
>> For no particularly practical reason, I was curious: any of you old guys
>> ever owned or used an Apollo workstation (from the 1980s)? Your experien=
ce?
>
> Very early HP-UX workstations. I've had them, and might even still have =
a
> copy of the OS around, but I'll have to dig. Do you now have one?
>
> --Arthur Corliss
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Negative. I ran across a reference to the brand in an old programming=20
book (1992). The book mentioned that there were Haskell implementations=20
available for "Sun 3, Sun 4, and Apollo computers". Was curious about a=20
computer brand I had not heard about before. Wikipedia says it had its=20
own proprietary operating system (Aegis) "because of the excessive cost=20
of single CPU Unix licenses at the time", and that the OS had a=20
networking system that was fairly user-friendly for that period. Just=20
curious if any of you all had any personal experiences to share.

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