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Originally Posted by gary
I'm am trying to think back of the names of the Apollo sales reps that
were here in Sydney .. Carlo or Carlos??
We use to use a lot of Apollo computers in previous working life times -
DN3000's, DN4000's, DN4500's DN-425T's - for both software
and hardware/ASIC development. The hardware platforms ran
Mentor Graphics licenses.
Apollo made some great computers and it took a long time
before personal computers had any of the salient hardware features that
were in any way comparable.
Operating system and network-wise I am still waiting for PC's and Macs
to catch up with what Apollo were already doing back in the early 80's. 
I still have some Apollo computers here as a historical collection. |
There was a Sydney sales guy called Carmelo San Gil, IIRC.
The integration of the network into the AEGIS O/S was very well done and I liked the software development tools. The token ring networking worked very well too. Unfortunately, the market moved on and Apollo's move to Unix was late and half-hearted.
Those were fun days. My kids were pretty impressed when I brought home a 19" CRT and let them play wire-frame graphics computer games
Cheers,
Rick.