Bull SA has enhanced its DPS 6000 minicomputer line with new 32-bit departmental systems that are claimed to deliver three times the performance and many times the number of users – from four to 300 – as its DPS 6 Plus predecessor. The 6000s support Open Systems Interconnection, SNA, X400 messaging, MS-DOS micros as terminals, the Oracle database and Unix, and 17 models in three families are included in the French launch. The DPS 6000/200 comprises four models with single and dual processor versions, with 4Mb to 16Mb main memory, delivering 0.7 to 1.7 MIPS. It supports 142Mb to 1.2Gb on disk and four to 30 communications lines. The seven-model DPS 6000/400 line comes in single to quad processor models with 8Mb to 64Mb memory delivering 1.1 to 5.6 MIPS, taking up to 9.52Gb on disk, and up to 160 lines. And the 6000/600s also come with one, two, three or four CPUs, rated at from 3 MIPS to 10.1 MIPS, 16Mb to 64Mb memory, up to 9.52Gb disk and 272 lines. Prices range from $17,000 to $340,000. The 200s arrive in France at year-end, the 400s follow in early, the 600s in mid-1990. Bull also announced the DPX/2 100, 200 and 300 Unix machines. The 100 is the 25MHz 80386-based Micral 600/ix; the 210 is a 25MHz 68030-based machine; the 320 has one or two 25MHz 68030s, the 340 takes one to four 33MHz 68030s. Prices are $11,000 to $66,000.
