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Re:Apollo DN10000: Quad CPU/128Mb RAM workstation from 1988 ... by bee_rider on Monday July 22, 2024 @08:19AM (#41033563)
I wonder if it might have been a beast at some tasks, but not others?

I imagine these chips might have been optimized for throughput on well-suited and carefully tuned programs, where the compilers could be convinced to put out good code (since it was apparently something like a VLIW).

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Re:Apollo DN10000: Quad CPU/128Mb RAM workstation from 1988 ... by hulitu on Wednesday July 24, 2024 @02:31PM (#41060199)
> I wonder if it might have been a beast at some tasks, but not others?

Domain OS was a multiuser, multitasking OS running on a Motorola 68020 with 4 Megs of RAM with distributed filesystem and diskless clients which did swap over the network. Ah, and with versioning filesystem. And Spice simulations were resonably fast compared to a 386/40 running Pspice on MS-DOS.

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