A bridge from full-function to reduced-function workstations

Authors:
Richard L Phillips;Daniel E Atkins;Nancy A Benovich;Brian D Schipper
Affiliations:
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Venue:
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
Year:
1986

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A practical, distributed environment for Macintosh software development

Proceedings of the 1986 ACM SIGSMALL/PC symposium on Small systems

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Abstract

This article describes a system that allows a reduced-function workstation, an Apple Macintosh, to perform as a low-end node in an Apollo Domain workstation network. Programs that run in the Apollo environment do not have to be modified to be accessed from the Macintosh; the appropriate system subroutines are intercepted and recast into a suitable form. Each Apollo workstation can support from two to three Macintosh PCs, making the average cost per console as little as $5000. A similar project is underway for the IBM PC family of computers.