<company> A company making workstations often used for
CAD.
From 1980 to 1987, Apollo were the largest manufacturer of
network workstations. Apollo workstations ran Aegis, a
proprietary operating system with a Posix-compliant Unix
alternative frontend. Apollo's networking was particularly
elegant, among the first to allow demand paging over the
network, and allowing a degree of network transparency and
low sysadmin-to-machine ratio that is still unmatched.
Apollo's largest customers were Mentor Graphics (electronic
design), GM, Ford, Chrysler, and Boeing (mechanical design).
Apollo was acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 1989, and
gradually closed down over the period 1990-1997.
