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Apollo Computer Superseded

Apollo Computer
KindCompany
Founded1980
Defunct1989
StatusSuperseded
FoundersWilliam Poduska
FieldWorkstations
Sourcebitsavers.org ↗

The first workstation company — DOMAIN/OS and networked computing before Sun was a household word. HP bought it in 1989.

Acquired by Hewlett-Packard
Created Apollo DN100 Domain/OS

Poduska's Apollo (1980) beat Sun to market with the DN100 — 68000-based workstations on a proprietary token ring, the DOMAIN/OS distributed file system, and the 'workstation' concept itself: personal machines sharing a network, not a timeshared terminal.

Apollo led the market until Sun's cheaper approach won; HP bought it in April 1989 for $476 million, and Apollo's DOMAIN technology folded into HP's workstation line.

Sources

  1. bitsavers.org/pdf/apollo/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Computer