Compagnie des Machines Bull SA will announce two new DPX/2 server models at UniForum this month, the 270 and 380. Both will run an OSF/1-modified version of BOX, a derivative of Unix System V.3.2. Bull isn’t planning a straight OSF/1 until mid-1992, when it comes out with a new hardware line. The new DPX/2 boxes are intended either as workgroup servers or front and back-end processors for the company’s proprietary systems. They have been dressed up for distributed computing and will support BOS/TP, Bull’s on-line transaction processing monitor; Distributed Data Access software; OpenTeam, its LAN Manager for integrating MS-DOS personal computers, and its Distributed Computing Facility, Bull’s implementation of the Open Software Foundation’s Distributed Computing Environment.
