Honeywell Bull + [OT] insert

At 17:09 18/05/99 -0500, you wrote: This is true:I also know that Bull put the label "Honeywell/Bull" on many machines that were projected under Honeywell and still in the market when they step in (e.g. I've personally seen many CQ36 and CQ38 printers with both labels, according to theyr manufacturing period). This is not true. After the DPS and before the RS6000 line, BULL presented a line of machines that should be a connecting ring between the DPS architecture and the UNIX. The family name was DPX/2 and models no's went from 210 to 380 In the company where I work we are still running a DPX/2 380 under B.O.S.IX The machine was the last one that used the Motorola 68000 family. If I remember correctly, 2xx family was monoprocessors while 3xx where multi; DPX320 and DPX360 used 68020 and 68030. Ours (380) has one 68040 at 25 Mhz but could accept up to 4 CPU. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Begin [OT] corner about price policy and machines sizing The funny (or sad) about that is that the expandibility offered by those machines are always not a good policy: After 3 years (1995) from the installation date, I decided to check the opportunity to upgrade the machine with another cpu. The official price was 21 million lira! (Abt 12 thousand USD) that was nearly the current price for a new system with a Pentium class processor: instead of adapting the price to the current market value price, they keep (or increase) the pricelist, probably to better convince them to change earlier the machine. I believe this policy is widely spread between constructors of propietary architectures machines. Now since the old DPX wouldn't see the lights of the new year in a sane condition, I'm quite indecided between the purchase of an entry level machine (you keep it 3-4 years then change without upgrades) or just a step further, with 2way processor capability. Do you have any personal experience on that?. End of [OT] corner ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Coming back to DPX family...well before the IBM collaborations (and shares exchange) on the PowerPc architecture, Bull released a contemporary line machine based on a RISC processor that still used BOSIX. Again the name was DPX/2 (cannot remember models name). After this model Bull came out with Estrella and Escala PPC machines. Some machines where developed by Bull and manufactured by IBM for both labels, some were developed and made by Bull. Ciao Riccardo Romagnoli <chemif(a)mbox.queen.it> I-47100 Forl?