[SunRescue] OT B.O.S

[Jonathan Katz]

Stou wrote:

:Hi, as a friend and I were walking toward his car today after school we
:noticed about a dozen fridge-sized cabinets on the side of one of the
:buildings (obviously thrown out), most of them had labels saying "Bull

I'm not an expert but Bull Groupe is a French company that has made
all kinds of mini and mainframe computers. Infact, they're the last
folks who had rights to MULTICS. I haven't worked on much of their stuff,
but they even made PCs.

I'm convinced that somewhere in the basement of a lab in Paris there is
a copy of MULTICS for x86 sitting on 1/4" tape somewhere :)

Knowning what little I know about their products these boxes could be 
Intel-based and similar to old Sequents (boxes w/ 20 or 40 286s and 386s.)
They have their own perversion of SYS V Unix that theyuse.

Bull did make PCs in the recent past, too. If you get model numbers, and
or have a good memory as to what they look like check out www.bull.com.

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