Artifact Details

Title

Domain DN300 Workstation keyboard

Catalog Number

X424.84C

Type

Physical object

Description

This machine featured a 3-stage pipeline and proprietary 32-bit bit- slice processor. It offered VAX 11/780 performance "at about one- quarter the cost." It was used in simulation, VLSI design, and AI environments and was marketed as a "supermini in a box". It ran UNIX, FORTRAN, Pascal, and C, and had a bit-mapped color display (1024 x 1024), 16K cache, and 256MB virtual memory. The Apollo supported "transparent virtual memory access," a form of clustering in which adding more Apollo machines to a network improved performance.

Date

1984

Manufacturer

Apollo Computer, Inc.

Place Manufactured

U.S.

Identifying Numbers

Model number DN300 000416/432
Serial number B0000168

Dimensions

2 x 22 1/2 x 7 in.

Category

I/O/keyboard

Subject

Workstations

Credit

Gift of Apollo Computer, Inc.

Lot Number

X424.84