Now that it runs the whole show, Groupe Bull is able to make major product announcements simultaneously worldwide, and yesterday it added two new DPS 7000 processors and a new configuration of the NEC Corp-sourced top-end DPS 7/1X07. There are five new departmental DPS 7000/200 models using a new 22,000 gate-per-chip CMOS CPU that can pack up to two processors on the same board, with clock wound up to 82nS from 120nS previously: the models 230, 240, 250, 260 and 270 can be field-upgraded and offer a performance range of 5.5 to 22 debit-credit transactions a second, and from 10 to more than 100 active terminals. A 230 with 8Mb, three 500Mb disks, tape and four lines is UKP86,000. There are three 300 models – 340, 360 and 380, doing 22 to 42 transactions per second, and supporting 360 to 700 active users. A 7000/380 processor is UKP540,000. The DPS 7/1047 is a four-CPU model understood to be based on NEC’s Acos 750; up to 2,500 simultaneous users can do 120 transactions a second.
