Why did Apollo fall so far behind Sun Microsystems Inc in the workstation market? The answer is the age-old problem that besets the pioneer – it was too far ahead of the game: Apollo was founded two years before Sun, and its Domain networked workstations established a new market – but at that time, there was no head of steam behind Unix, and Apollo started out with its own proprietary Aegis operating system and hit a serious hiatus when the burgeoning industry standardised on Unix; it lost time implementing its own version of Unix, while Sun had the percipience and luck, two years later, to settle on the Berkeley version of Unix from the beginning.
