BULL - XPS 120 - HELP!

From: Bill/Carolyn Pechter <pechter_at_shell.monmouth.com>
Date: Sun Jun 21 12:24:07 1998

>
> >I have a BULL XPS 120 (or 100 not sure) .. either way its a Mini Frame..

A friend of mine (on the list) has been restoring a couple of MiniFrame's.
(John -- any comments?)

>
> Not sure if I should congratulate or pity you. Is this any relation to the
> Honeywell systems that Bull bought off of Honeywell? In any case it's a
> really cool sounding setup!

Well, the miniframe was an early Convergent Unix micro with some advanced
functions... like loadable device driverss.

AT&T's Unix PC (7300,3b1) were based on Convergent's work.

>
> >question is how do I do this :). I am fairly knowledable with Unix..
> >etc..and I have ALL the docuamentation, and DISKS that came with it. and
> >terminals ..etc Can anyone help me get this pumping :).. Also I heard
>
> In this I envy you, I'm never that lucky! I've one question, are you sure
> it runs UNIX? Or does it run GCOS?

If it's a Convergent Miniframe it's usually a System V box.


Bill
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