Hmm... I never played on a DN10000. Which cpu chip did these
things use? All the Apollos I used (up to DN4000) were 68K-based.
I thought that HP bought Apollo because they were competing for
exactly the same niche: technical workstations aimed at CAD/CAE with
a lot of emphasis in the EE arena: almost all of the important EE packages
ran on Apollo; EMTP, MatrixX, Matlab, even Mentor Graphics?
I wasn't into chip design, but I know people used the Apollos for that.
Plus, they shared the same cpu family at the time: 68K .
I thought this would have made integration of Apollo into hp
easier. Finally, I think that HPPA predates the buyout;
It still had not made it into the 700-series machines,
but there were many HPPA 800s already. Am I wrong?
Carlos.
At 09:43 PM 5/13/01 -0600, you wrote:
>Yes, HP bought Apollo in 1989, solely for their RISC technology, which they
>added to their RISC chip and caused it to become much better than before...
>*Drools over thought of owning a 4 processor DN10000*
>
>Will J
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Received on Mon May 14 2001 - 07:06:20 BST