Computing
The DN100 is based on the Motorola microprocessor, high-resolution display and built-in networking - the three basic features of all workstations. Apollo and its main competitor, Sun Microsystems, optimized their machines to run the computer-intensive graphics programs common in engineering and scientific applications. Apollo was a leading innovator in the workstation field for more than a decade, and was acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 1989. These particular instructions were chosen because they are sufficient to write useful programs. Once you understand how to implement these instructions, you can expand the hardware to handle others. The architectural state is the information necessary to define what a computer is doing. Think of a science fiction novel in which the protagonist’s brain is frozen, then thawed years later to wake up in a new world. Under the leadership of MIT's Gordon Brown and Jay Forrester, the team first built a small analog simulator, but found it inaccura