Bull signs new technology agreement with NEC.BILLERICA, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 10, 1995--Bull announced today a joint agreement to expand its long-term cooperation with NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. on very large mainframe systems. This announcement concerns the development of new CMOS-based systems for their respective large mainframe markets throughout the world. It corresponds to a R&D investment by Bull of around $40M. The new systems are to be developed in Bull's Phoenix, Ariz., and Les Clayes, France, R&D facilities and manufactured by Bull for both companies in the Angers, France, factory. They are based on Bull's extended Distributed Processing System architecture and the most advanced CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) Pronounced "c-moss." The most widely used integrated circuit design. It is found in almost every electronic product from handheld devices to mainframes. technology. NEC will contribute engineering resources for cooperative development with Bull on the design and implementation of these systems. Within the framework of a project code-named "Jupiter," Bull will incorporate the GCOS (General Comprehensive OS) An operating system from Bull that, originally used in its minis and mainframes, has migrated to its Intel-based servers. GCOS was originally developed by GE in the early 1970s as GECOS (GE Comprehensive OS), then changed to General 8 operating system on this platform to fully exploit its recognized transaction processing/database capabilities, offering over 1,500 mainframe-class transactions per second In a very generic sense, the term Transactions Per Second refers to the number of atomic actions performed by certain entity per second. In a more restrictied view, the term is usually used by DBMS vendor and user community to refer to the number of database transactions performed and up to 50,000 simultaneous sessions. NEC will integrate technology used in Parallel ACOS (language) ACOS - A BBS language for PRODOS 8 on Apple II. Macos is a hacked version of ACOS. Series, including "Multi System Control Facility" and "Parallel Batch Processing (1) Performing a particular operation automatically on a group of files all at once rather than manually opening, editing and saving one file at a time. For example, graphics software that converts a selection of images from one format to another would be a batch processing utility. ," and also port its ACOS-6 operating system for its customers. The result for customers of both Bull and NEC will be fast, powerful business computers based on a commodity market cost structure. These systems will be compatible with each company's respective current very large system range. In particular, for Bull, they will complement the existing Bull DPS Minicomputer series from Bull HN. 1. (language, text) DPS - Display PostScript. 2. (language) DPS - A real-time language with direct expression of timing requests. ["Language Constructs for Distributed Real-Time PRogramming", I. 9000/900 product family ("Zeus"). Jean-Claude Albrecht, senior executive vice president and general manager of Bull's Enterprise Systems Division, said, "This agreement capitalizes on Bull's recognized expertise in CMOS/VLSI technology and parallel multiserver architecture (on the Bull DPS 7000 range) and on NEC's proven experience in very large systems and super-computers. It further reinforces the fruitful long-standing relationship we have with NEC and allows both companies to satisfy the high standards of enterprise information processing demanded by our respective customers." CONTACT: Bull HN Information Systems (USA) Bill Bradley, 508/294-5812 or Groupe Bull (France) Harry Jacobs, (33-1) 39 66 35 13 |
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