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From: jim@cs.vu.nl (Jim van Keulen)
Newsgroups: mod.computers.workstations
Subject: Information wanted about Apollo series 3000
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Date: Tue, 20-Jan-87 09:26:18 EST
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I would like to know more about the Apollo Series 3000 workstations.
These might be an alternative for Sun workstations, but I am not
familiar with the Apollo products. The penetration of Apollo's in
academic circles seems to be much lower then Sun's. Is there a good
reason for this fact?

My principal questions are:

- What is the quality of the UNIX implementation? Is it real UNIX or
  just a UNIX shell around a proprietary operating kernel? 
- What about the network facilities? Is there a fully transparent
  distributed file system?
- How easy is it to port UNIX program distributions to the Apollo?
- What is the general politics of Apollo with respect to make
  available kernel sources?

If you compare Apollo series 3000 with Sun-52/M workstations are
there certain advantages of the Apollo over the Sun?

I would be grateful for any information you can give,

                                                Jim van Keulen