6 Nov
1997
6 Nov
'97
12:03 p.m.
Hey! I know Apollos! :)
The first system-admin task I had (1984) was to admin a network of Apollo
workstations we used for CAD. As others have mentioned, The Apollo OS
(Aegis) is not Unix, but it's pretty similar to a user. (Though not to an
admin...)
The windowing system Apollo used was NOT X-windows, though the later
machines had X, I suppose. They were nice machines for their day and they
were the only platform at the time for "MENTOR Graphics" Chip and circuit
board design tools.
Unfortunately Mentor had a nasty habit of burning the hardware bridges
behind their customers. Every significant new release would require the
latest hardware and would not run on the old machines! So lots of Apollos
wound up in dumpsters.
Apollo also had the SONY-betamax, Apple-mac disease... (We're the best, so
we'll make everything proprietary and make a fortune... yeah right! ;)
Bjorn Eng
On Wed, 5 Nov
1997, Zane H. Healy wrote:
some guy i
bought a mac video card from said he had something called an
apollo workstation. he said it was a 68020/68030 with a 19 inch monitor, can
run *nix, and would only want ~$50 for it. anyone heard of this machine or
know anything about it? he said some local colleges used the machines for
various duties but are obsolete now.