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APOLLO COMPUTER

Specialty Definition: APOLLO COMPUTER

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Computing

Apollo Computer A company making workstations often used for CAD. Apollo became a division of Hewlett-Packard some time before November 1995. [Dates? More details?] (1998-03-13). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

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Specialty Definition: Apollo Computer

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Apollo Computer was one of the original graphical workstation vendors in the 1980's, along with Sun Microsystems. Both companies used the Motorola 68000 processor to great success in their UNIX-based systems. Apollo's computers used Domain OS, based on BSD Unix

In 1981, it unveiled the DN100 workstation which provided minicomputer performance with high-resolution graphics capabilities. At the end of 1987, it was third in market share after Digital Equipment Corporation and Sun, and ahead of HP and IBM.

It was acquired by HP in May 1989 for US $476 million.

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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Apollo Computer."

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Commercial Usage: APOLLO COMPUTER

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Books

  • Application Case Study - Apollo Computer, Inc.: Eda Environment (reference)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: APOLLO COMPUTER

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

apollo computer

11

apollo computer system

7
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Anagrams: APOLLO COMPUTER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-l-l-m-o-o-o-p-p-r-t-u"

-5 letters: allotrope, corollate, molecular, peculator, ultracool.

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Alternative Orthography: APOLLO COMPUTER


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 50 4F 4C 4C 4F      43 4F 4D 50 55 54 45 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01010000 01001111 01001100 01001100 01001111 00100000 01000011 01001111 01001101 01010000 01010101 01010100 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#80 &#79 &#76 &#76 &#79 &#32 &#67 &#79 &#77 &#80 &#85 &#84 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0050 004F 004C 004C 004F      0043 004F 004D 0050 0055 0054 0045 0052

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

35504946464923749475055543952

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INDEX

1. Usage: Commercial
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography 		5. Bibliography


  

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