apollo computer meaning

• [Computer]
  <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.

• It bought Apollo Computer in 1989 and Convex Computer in 1995.
• He built the international operations of both Digital Equipment and Apollo Computer.
• Apollo Computer workstations were chosen as the initial hardware platform.
• Apollo Travel Services markets the Apollo computer reservation system, which is made by Galileo.
• He was recruited to Sun Microsystems from Apollo Computer Systems in 1987 as head of marketing.
• Apollo Computer used Pascal as the systems programming language for its operating systems beginning in 1980.
• After Hewlett-Packard bought Apollo Computer in 1989, those developers left to form Atria.
• That division evolved to produce UNIX HP 9000 series workstations, also acquiring the Apollo Computer Company.
• Use of the ETA10 was rather complicated, and required all programs be loaded via attached Apollo Computer workstations.
• It was not put into operation, though, as the Apollo computer did not malfunction during that mission.

• "apollo computer" meaning in Chinese: 阿波罗电脑