BULL - XPS 120 - HELP!

From: Ward Donald Griffiths III <gram_at_cnct.com>
Date: Mon Jun 22 05:58:17 1998

Bill/Carolyn Pechter wrote:
>
> >
> > >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.

No, the AT&T Unix PC, hardware and OS, _was_ Convergent's work with
some design parameters input by AT&T.
-- 
Ward Griffiths
They say that politics makes strange bedfellows.
Of course, the main reason they cuddle up is to screw somebody else.
				Michael Flynn, _Rogue Star_
Received on Mon Jun 22 1998 - 05:58:17 BST

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