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vendor. The two companies had been working together since April 1986
to package Apple’s Mac II and Apollo’s Domain operating system as a low-
end workstation. Apollo executives were set to board a plane for Silicon
Valley to sign the contract committing them to buying 40,000 Mac IIs
when Sculley backed out at the last moment because he felt that Apollo’s
star was fading in the ascent of rival Sun Microsystems. He was right. Sun
went on to dominate the workstation market, and Apollo was eventually
acquired by Hewlett-Packard.
By the time Apple sued Microsoft on March 17, 1988, for similarities
between Windows and the