apollo - Jim Rees

81 Pages·2010·4.2 MB·English

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apollo®
Apollo Delivers Standard, Open, Performance Computing
INTRODUCTION
Since its inception as the pioneer of the workstation industry and throughout its history,
Apollo has, and will continue in the future, to deliver the, standard, open, performance
computing environment to the technical and business professional at the best price/per
formance available in the industry. To achieve this Apollo combines state of the art tech
nological developments, industry standard commodity technology, open system architec
tures, and an industry standard software environment into a broad workstation product
offering. Some of the many elements that comprise this product family include:
TECHNOLOGY
PARALLEL REDUCED INSTRUCTION SET MULTIPROCESSING (PRISM)
MOTOROLA 680XO MICROPROCESSORS (68030, 68020)
NETWORK COMPUTING SYSTEMS (NCS)
OPEN SOFTWARE FOUNDATION (OSF)
OPEN SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES
IBM PC AT COMPATIBLE BUS
VME BUS
INDUSTRY STANDARD SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENT
DOMAIN O/S (DISTRIBUTED UNIX SYSTEM V.3, BERKELEY 4.3)
OPEN DIALOGUE
X-WINDOW SYSTEM
GKS
PHIGS
Apollo's current family of performance computing products is no exception, delivering from
1.5 to 100 MIPS, allowing users to choose the performance that's the right choice for the
right price.
APOLLO and Domain are registered trademarks of Apollo Computer Inc. AEGIS, Domain/ACCESS, Domain/BRIDGE, Domain/C, Domain/ComController,
Domain/CORE, Domain/DFL, Domain/DIALOGUE, Domain/IX, Domain/LASER-26, Domain/LISP, Domain/PCC, Domain/PAK, Domain/PCI, Domain/SNA,
Domain x.25, DPSS, DPSS/MAIL, DSEE, DOMAIN/CommonLlSP, DGR, D3M, FPX, GMR, GPR, GSR, NCK, Network Computing Kernal, Network
Computing System, Open System Toolkit, Personal Workstation, Personal Super Workstation, Series 3000 and Series 4000 are trademarks of Apollo
Computer Inc. UNIX is a trademark of AT&T Bell Laboratories, Inc. VT100 and VAX are registered trademarks and VMS is a trademark of Digital Equipment
Corp. MULTIBUS is a trademark of Intel Corp. PostScript is a trademark of Adobe Systems, Inc. ETHERNET is a registered trademark of Xerox Corp. IBM
is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corp. TEKTRONIX is a registered trademark of Tektronix, Inc. Interleaf and WPS are
trademarks of Interleaf, Inc., NFS Is a trademark of SUN Microsystems Inc., Ails is a trademark of Appllx, Inc.
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PRODUCTS
Apollo's current product line consists of six (6) basic products:
DOMAIN SERIES 3000
DOMAIN SERIES 3500
DOMAIN SERIES 4000
DOMAIN SERIES 4500
DOMAIN SERIES 500 Turbo
DOMAIN SERIES 10000
Based on an open system architecture, all these products offer a wide range of configura
tion options, such as increased memory, mass storage capacity, monochrome or color,
low or high resolution graphics, and choice of networks, to allow the user to tailor the
system to fit their needs.
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DOMAIN SERIES 3000
The Domain Series 3000 is Apollo's entry level, low cost, desktop workstation. It delivers a
full, industry standard UNIX environment, with an industry standard expansion bus for un
der $5,000. It's features include:
DN3000
PERFORMANCE: 1.5 MIPS
CPU: 12 Mhz MC68020
12 Mhz MC68881
MEMORY: 4~8 MB
GRAPHICS:
MONO: 15", 1024 X 800
19", 1280 X 1024
COLOR: 15" or 19", 1024 X 800, 4-plane or 8-plane
MASS STORAGE: 155MB or 348MB ESDI
Floppy or Cartridge Tape
NETWORK: Apollo Token Ring or Ethernet
EXPANSION BUS: 7-slot IBM PC AT Compatible Bus
OPTIONS: Personal Computer Co-processor ( PCC )
Serial/Parallel Expansion Board ( SPE )
Monochrome configurations with a disk range from $8,500 to $15,500, while color configu
rations with a disk range from $12,400 to $23,800. Specific pricing can be found on page
4.
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DOMAIN SERIES 3500
The Domain Series 3500 offers a 4 MIPS, desktop, UNIX environment with an industry
standard expansion bus that starts at under $8,000 for an entry level monochrome configu
ration and under $10,000 for an entry level color configuration. To achieve this incredible
price/performance Apollo used the most advanced commodity microprocessor available,
in volume, in the marketplace, the Motorola 25Mhz 68030 and 68882 floating point co
processor, furthering Apollo's leading technology posture in the industry. Other features
include:
DN3500
PERFORMANCE: 4 MIPS
CPU: 25 Mhz MC68030
25 Mhz MC68882
MEMORY: 4-32 MB
GRAPHICS:
MONO: 15", 1024 X 800
19", 1280 X 1024
COLOR: 15" or 19", 10 24 X 800, 4-plane or 8-plane
19", 1280 X 1024, 8-plane, 2-D accelerated
MASS STORAGE: 155MB, 348MB or dual 348MB ESDI
Floppy or Cartridge Tape
NETWORK: Apollo Token Ring or Ethernet
EXPANSION BUS: 7-slot IBM PC AT Compatible Bus
OPTIONS: Floating Point Accelerator ( FPA )
Personal Computer Co-processor ( PCC )
Serial/Parallel Expansion Board ( SPE )
Monochrome configurations with disk range from $12,500 to $18,500, while color configu
rations with disk range from $14,500 to $28,900. Specific pricing can be found on page 12.
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DOMAIN SERIES 4000
The Domain Series 4000 is Apollo's standard, proven 4 MIPS desktop workstation. It con
tinues to be the performance workhorse in delivering computational power to the desktop.
With it's standard UNIX environment and open architecture, it allows users the flexibility to
meet all of their needs. Features include:
DN4000
PERFORMANCE: 4 MIPS
CPU: 25 Mhz MC68020
25 Mhz MC68881
MEMORY: 4-32 MB
GRAPHICS:
MONO: 19", 1280 X 1024
COLOR: 15" or 19", 1024 X 800, 8-plane
19", 1280 X 1024, 8-plane, 2-D accelerated
MASS STORAGE: 155MB, 348MB or dual 348MB ESDI
Floppy or Cartridge Tape
NETWORK: Apollo Token Ring or Ethernet
EXPANSION BUS: 7-slot IBM PC AT Compatible Bus
OPTIONS: Floating Point Accelerator ( FPA )
Personal Computer Co-processor (. PCC )
Serial/Parallel Expansion Board ( SPE )
Monochrome configurations with disk range from $12,500 to $18,500, while color configu
rations with disk range from $18,500 to $30,500. Specific pricing can be found on page 24.
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DOMAIN SERIES 4500
The Domain Series 4500 is Apollo's most powerful desktop, UNIX workstation, delivering a
full 7 MIPS to the user. To deliver this level of performance without having to introduce
incompatible architectures into its personal workstation family of products, Apollo used the
Motorola 33 Mhz 68030 and 68882 floating point co-processor, the most powerful compat
ible CPU on the market. Apollo also implemented other design advances of its own such
as; a large physical cache to maintain no wait state operation and interleaved memory to
maximize memory bandwidth to the CPU, to optimize performance. The DN4500 features
include:
DN4500
PERFORMANCE: 7 MIPS
CPU: 33 Mhz MC68030
33 Mhz MC68882
64KB Physical Cache
MEMORY: 8-32 MB ( two-way interleaved )
GRAPHICS:
MONO: 19", 1280 X 1024
COLOR: 19", 10 24 X 800, 8-plane
19", 1280 X 1024, 8-plane, 2-D accelerated
MASS STORAGE: 155MB, 348MB or dual 348MB ESDI
Floppy or Cartridge Tape
NETWORK: Apollo Token Ring or Ethernet
EXPANSION BUS: 7 -slot PC AT Compatible Bus
OPTIONS: Floating Point Accelerator ( FPA )
Personal Computer Co-processor ( PCC )
Serial/Parallel Expansion Board ( SPE )
Entry level monochrome configurations begin at under $19,000, while entry level color
configurations begin at under $25,000. Monochrome configurations with disk range from
$23,500 to $28,500, while color configurations with disk range from $29,500 to $38,500.
Specific pricing can be found on page 29.
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DOMAIN SERIES 500 Turbo
The Domain Series 590 Turbo product is Apollo's 3-D graphics workstation offering. It
offers users full 3-D graphics capabilities such as either 24-plane true color operation, or
8-plane pseudo color, double buffer operation, all with a 16-bit Z-buffer for hidden surface
removal. It is part of the Domain Series 500 Turbo product line which also includes two
2-D, 8-plane graphics products, the DN580T and the DN570T, both of which deliver high
speed, 2-D graphics, capabilities. Configurations include :
DN500T
PERFORMANCE: DN590T 130,000 3-D Vectors/sec.
5,000 Polygons/sec
DN580T 150,000 2-D Vectors/sec
DN570T 40,000 2-D Vectors/sec
CPU: 20 Mhz MC68020
20 Mhz MC68881
16KB Physical Cache
Floating Point Accelerator ( FPA )
MEMORY: 8-16 MB
GRAPHICS: 19", 1280 X 1024
DN590T 24-plane color
16-bit Z -buffer
3-D Graphics Accelerator ( 3DGA )
DN580T 8-plane color
DN570T 8-plane color
MASS STORAGE: 155MB, 348MB or dual 348MB ESDI
442MB to 1768MB SMD
Cartridge Tape
NETWORK: Apollo Token Ring or Ethernet
EXPANSION BUS: 4-slot MUL TIBUS or 4-slot VME Bus
Configurations range from the entry level with 8MB and 155MB of disk at $70,000 to maxi
mum configurations over $100,000. Specific pricing can be found on page 39.
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