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Wed Jul 29 17:24:04 1981
apollo s/w release 2.0
>From Andy.VanDam@CMU-10A Wed Jul 29 17:18:19 1981
The second release of Apollo DOMAIN s/w happened as promised in
mid-July. Performance has improved greatly - cmd startup time
is (usually) instantaneous, cmds execute much faster (cp, for
example, is about 25% faster both for copying local-local and
over the network), and most known bufs have been fixed. Func-
tionality has also increase (although there's still plenty of
room for more increases...): there are a few new s/w tool cmds
(such as Unix-like sed, grep, macro processor), the display
manager (i.e., their full-screen editor) has cut, paste,
searches, and the user can access the display memory and
bit-mover.
In response to a query from the other week, yes, the Apollo
Users Workshop did take place at Brown on 21-22 June. Users
and potential users from: USAF Geophysics Lab, Bell Labs,
CaslTech, CCA, Computer Techniques, Cornell, Daniel Wagner,
AHarvard, IBM Cambridge, MIT, Mentor Graphics, Schlumberger
Well Services, UMass - Boston, UPenn, and Yale briefly
described what they are planning to do with their apollo's,
Dave Nelson and Bill Poduska talked in detail about the
company's plans for s/w releases and general growth, Kim
McCall from PARC-LRG talked about implementing Smalltalk
on an Apollo, and workshops were held about porting unix,
graphics, lisp, and tex.
The general reaction of the participants was that Apollo is
listening to its user community, which at present is primarily
CS R&D/academia. Apollo looks like it will be around for quite
some time, and will be emphasizing mktg for commericial world
(though they promise not to forget us CSers). Presently, the
h/w is quite solid, and most agree that the s/w is still about
a year away from being there.
Details of Apollo's plans discussed at the mtg are confidential.
Contact me for a list of participants (w/ phone, arpa addreesses)
that can be contacted for more direct info, or for a short (3
sentence) summary of what the participants said they'd be doing
with the Apollos.
Marc Brown
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