Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!cunews!holtz
From: holtz@cascade.carleton.ca (Neal Holtz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Not only HP makes a mess !
Keywords: Hp-bashing, SUN.
Message-ID: <1990Dec19.170128.5038@ccs.carleton.ca>
Date: 19 Dec 90 17:01:28 GMT
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In article <1990Dec14.034938.8533@alphalpha.com> nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley) writes:
>Apollo always tried to be quite good about compatibility (from the
>inside I thought we were, I'm not sure how it looked on the outside;
>upgrades weren't an option, but your software continued to run for
>a long time, and old machines were supported for a long time). 

This user thinks you did a great job.  Our first Apollos came very early in 1984
(DN300's and DSP80's with SMD's).  A few of these are still running (SR9.7 still).
My first Apollo program was a simple graphics program.  I still use it daily on
my DN2500.  It was last compiled in 1984, having gone from SR7 (I believe) to SR10.2
without recompiling or relinking.

I think this is remarkable, is one of the reasons I have been (futilely (?))
pushing Apollos around here, and it saddens and dissapoints me to see it
ending.


--
Prof. Neal Holtz,  Dept. of Civil Eng.,  Carleton University,  Ottawa, Canada
Internet: holtz@civeng.carleton.ca   Tel: (613)788-5797    Fax: (613)788-3951