tamir@ucbvax.ARPA (Yuval Tamir) (04/27/85)
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 ARPANET/CSNET: tamir@Berkeley UUCP: ucbvax!tamir
jih@usl.UUCP (Juha I. Heinanen) (04/29/85)
In article <6547@ucbvax.ARPA> tamir@ucbvax.UUCP (Yuval Tamir) writes: >of both hardware and software (Apollo has a BSD4.2 implementation). I understood from my conversation with an Apollo representative at the last Uniforun show that Apollo has a BSD4.2 implementation in the same sense as Vax/VMS has a BSD4.x implementation, i.e. a BSD4.2 *lookalike* running under their propertiary OS. Be careful to check the exact degree of compatibility, especially if you are planning to port a lot of existing 4.2 applications to your workstation. -- Juha Heinanen USL, P.O. Box 44330, Lafayette, LA 70504-433, tel. (318)231-5345 UUCP: {ut-sally, akgua}!usl!jih ARPA: usl!jih@ut-sally