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Apollo DN100 Dead

Apollo DN100
KindMachine
Introduced1981
Discontinued1989
StatusDead
ManufacturerApollo Computer
ClassWorkstation
PlatformMotorola 68000, token ring
Sourcebitsavers.org ↗

The first networked workstation — every machine had its own display, compute, and a ring network sharing files. Beat Sun to market; HP bought the company in 1989.

Created by Apollo Computer
Hosted Domain/OS

Poduska's Apollo DN100 (1981) was the first commercial networked workstation — 68000 CPU, bitmapped display, DOMAIN token ring network, every user with a machine that shared a distributed filesystem.

Apollo led the workstation market until Sun's cheaper, more open approach won. HP bought the company in 1989; the DOMAIN architecture folded into HP's workstation line.

Sources

  1. bitsavers.org/pdf/apollo/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo/Domain