>On Mon, Nov 02, 1998 at 06:26:13PM -0700, Zane H. Healy wrote:
>
>> <SHUDDER> you'd have to be a glutten for punishment! I've used them,
>> GCOS-6 isn't my idea of a fun time. Of course most of my experience was
>> with a DPS-8 and GCOS-8 (not much fun either). I hope whoever get's it
>
>Does DPS hardware have CII-Honeywell Bull IRIS compatibility mode?
>
>Is it true that CII IRIS series are clones of XDS Sigma 7?
Well, as I understand it Honeywell bought GE's computer section in the
70's, and I believe the hardware is based on their systems. GCOS was
originally GECOS, but the name was changed when Honeywell bought it. Group
Bull bought the computer section off of Honeywell in the 80's, but do to
some of their contracts with the US government there was a sort of go
between company in the US formed to take care of those contracts.
Group Bull had and has it's own systems I believe that are totally
nonrelated to Honeywells systems. So, I believe the DPS hardware wouldn't
have a compatibility mode, and no idea on the CII IRIS systems question.
The only things I ever dealt with were straight Honeywell systems and a
DPS-6 emulated on a HP9000.
Zane
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