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From: tamir@ucbvax.ARPA (Yuval Tamir)
Newsgroups: net.works
Subject: Apollo vs. SUN
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Date: Sat, 27-Apr-85 15:05:53 EDT
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Posted: Sat Apr 27 15:05:53 1985
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Reply-To: tamir@ucbvax.UUCP (Yuval Tamir)
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I am interested in comments about the various Apollo workstations
vs. the SUN workstations. I am, of course, interested in a comparison
of both hardware and software (Apollo has a BSD4.2 implementation).
Of particular interest is a comparison of the Apollo ring
with a gateway to an Ethernet TCP/IP vs. SUNs that are connected
directly to an Ethernet.

Since both SUN and Apollo have several different models,
the specific models you are comparing and their configuration
should be indicated. I am interested in both the low-end
diskless models and the high-end models with local disk and color.

There have been some comments in net.works about SUN but I have not
seen any comments (lately) about Apollo.
Thus I am interested in comments about Apollo workstations
(hardware, software, networking, reliability, service, delivery, etc)
even without any comparisons to SUN.

I will summarize the results in net.works.

				   Yuval Tamir

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