Corp is keeping faith with the old mid-range Burroughs users who once upon a time thought they might end up as orphans. The company has a new top-end for its V Series mainframe line: the V Series is the direct descendent of the B29-39-4900 line of 16-bit batch-oriented machines. Unisys also announced enhancements to the Master Control Program-V Series operating system and Data Management System software products. The new Model V560 is the first dual-processor in the V-series – there were no dual processors in the old Burroughs line – and the machine is claimed to have aggregate input-output throughput of 32Mbytes-per-second, and twice the cache memory of the previous high-end model, the V530, making the machine more attractive to the financial users that make up the biggest market for the V-series. The new Mark Release 3.0 of the Master Control Program adds support for multi processing and is claimed to imporve the performance of the V series DMS II database, up to 30%. US shipments start in August at from $2.89m, and field up.lh 6 grades from a V520 start at $1.28m.
