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From: benoni@ssc-vax.UUCP (Charles L Ditzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Does the Apollo DN10000 Exist?
Message-ID: <1772@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: 18 Mar 88 07:18:10 GMT
Organization: Boeing Aerospace Corp., Seattle WA
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I am interested in knowing if the Apollo DN1000 exists outside
of the labs...(or even in the lab) ... is it going through
beta testing...alpha testing...

My interest is spurred by some observations and rumors...people
around me have wondered about the actual benchmark released ...
apollo is claiming ranges for benchmarks (15-30 MIPS for one CPU)
...some people are saying that these are extrapolations and that
they saw something to that effect in a trade rag ... since these
people are not techies ... would someone at Apollo care to comment?

This set me to wondering :
	1) Why is Apollo announcing a machine that will not ship
	   until the third or fourth quarter (and initially without
	   graphics) so soon?  Understandably the super Graphics
	   computer is filling up fast...(alliant i think just bought
	   raster technologies, Ardent has also announced, etc.) 
	2) Why do they cite ranges in their benchmarks? I noticed
	   that they did have a drystone ...Is there any substance
	   that some of the benchmarks were extrapolations?
	3) Are the machines in beta?  Have they left the lab? Have
	   they been pieced together?
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On another subject :
	1) Will SR10 require a choice of which OS to use?  Calls to
	   Aegis from Unix will break?
	2) If so, will you still be able to bring up multiple
	   shells (Aegis, BSD4.3, Sys5)?


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