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From: benoni@ssc-vax.UUCP (Charles L Ditzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Does the Apollo DN10000 Exist?
Message-ID: <1836@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: 5 Apr 88 05:50:51 GMT
References: <1772@ssc-vax.UUCP> <8804012353.AA03028@pepper.sun.com>
Organization: Boeing Aerospace Corp., Seattle WA
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In article <8804012353.AA03028@pepper.sun.com>, cmcmanis@SUN.COM (Chuck McManis) writes:
> In article <1772@ssc-vax.UUCP> benoni@ssc-vax.UUCP (Charles L Ditzel) writes:
> >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...
> 
> I too would be really interested in getting a definitive answer on this
> question. After reading through the PRISM blurbs it looks like there is
> some neat technology possibilities, unfortunately NO ONE I have talked to
> knows anything about this machine (there are Apollo people). The Wall Street
> Journal and other less reliable reports seem to indicate that the 10000 was
> nothing more than a neat idea in someone's head. I can't believe that 
> this entire announcement was based entirely on simulations and speculations
> of probable performance, assuming someone could build the thing. 

I am fascinated with ALL the Apollo people on the net, many that are SO
quick to announce products, can not one answer a simple question of "whether
the machine exists"?  Have they touched it? Is it in alpha..beta? 
Having just finished reading an article about early
announcements of machines (prior to their existence)...has this been the
case with Apollo?  Why is it that rumor about a machines non-existence must 
be the only information concerning an ANNOUNCED product?  Apollo people
on the net ... please feel free to answer.  (After all I will take no
information as information. :-(

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