blogpost: Tektronix terminals and Apollo DN10000

[Jules Richardson]

Richard wrote:
> In article <481B0DD2.9060104 at gmail.com>,
>     Jules Richardson <jules.richardson99 at gmail.com>  writes:
> 
>> Richard wrote:
>>> In article <4819FE16.9090109 at gmail.com>,
>>>     Jules Richardson <jules.richardson99 at gmail.com>  writes:
>>>
>>>> Shame there's no manuals or media - that would be a really neat find.
>>> Actually, I know someone who has the Domain/OS release tapes for it...
>> For the dn10k? Intesresting... wasn't the dn10k install set totally different
>  
>> to the Domain/OS set for the 'lesser' Apollos? Nice to know there's a survivn
> g 
>> copy, anyway.
> 
> As I understand it, the DN10K uses a custom RISC processor and not a
> 680x0.

Indeed - a88k (not to be confused with m88k) wasn't it? (I was reluctant to 
say that "all other Apollos are m68k"[1], as didn't the very early ones use a 
custom CPU that emulated the 68k because the Motorola part wasn't yet widely 
available?)

[1] The later 7xx RISC-based series from HP doesn't count, of course...

Anyway, I think the Apollo install sets that I've seen do support all the 
m68k-a-like machines - but contain no support for the dn10k; hence if you've 
got a line on someone with dn10k media, I hope they're looking after it! :-)

cheers

Jules