Bull HN Information Systems Inc is taking care of its GCOS 6 minicomputer customers by providing means to enable them to move their DPS 6000 and Level 6 applications over to the Bull version of IBM Corp’s RS/6000, Newsbytes reports from Enterprise ’93 in Boston. At the show, the company unveiled GCOS 6 HVX, a new operating system that it claims is the first to enable Unix and proprietary minicomputer applications to be executed without modification on the same server. In its first release, called Single Decor, HVX will run GCOS 6 applications on the DPX/20 RISC servers. A future version of HVX, Dual Decor, will be able to run Unix applications as well as GCOS 6 applications on the DPX/20, the company says. The Single Decor version of GCOS 6 HVX is available now for some DPX/20 models and all models of the new server family are expected to be available with Single Decor in September, although it is not clear whether the machine needs to have a DPS 6000 co-processor installed to run the software. Dual Decor is planned for delivery in mid-1994. A sample mid-range system comprising a DPX/20 Model 460 with HVX, configured for 32 users, will cost $53,361, which the company claims represents a 45% cost reduction and an 80% performance improvement over an equivalent Bull DPS 6000 Model 522 minicomputer.
