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Aucbvax.2460 fa.works utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!works 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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