GCOS 8 Peripheral Susbsystem Year 2000 Compliance
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Last content update: July 5 1999 (see Notice)
Change history  for GCOS 8 pages

Peripherals


Data Warehouse Servers

Name Year 2000 ready Change
Relational DBC 1 No Aug 28, 1998
Relational DBC 2 OK (1) (2)  
Relational DBC 5100M OK (2)  
Mercury Bull SDW 6000 OK Oct 9, 1998

(1) Requires RDBMS V1R5.2.5 or higher.
(2) Requires UNIX SVR4 MP-RAS 3.02.0 or higher.

Cartridge Disk Array Subsystems

Name Year 2000 ready Change
CDA 4800 Cartridge Disk Array OK  
CDA 5100 Cartridge Disk Array OK  
CDA 5200 Cartridge Disk Array OK  
CDA 5300 Cartridge Disk Array OK  
CDA 5400 Cartridge Disk Array OK  

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Cartridge Tape Libraries

Name Year 2000 ready Change
CTL 6000 Cartridge Tape Library OK  
Extended Store OK  
Library Management Units (LMU) OK New
PowderHorn OK  
Timberwolf 9710 OK  
Timberwolf 9740 OK  
WolfCreek OK  

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CTL Severs

Name SW Version Year 2000 ready Change
CTL UNIX Server ACSLS 5.3 OK New
CTL VM Server   No (1) New

(1) No longer supported. Bull recommends to migrate to a CTL UNIX server.

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Cartridge Tape Subsystems

Name Year 2000 ready Change
CTS 8500 No (1) New
Silverton 18 Tracks OK Cosmetic
Silverton 36 Tracks OK Cosmetic
Timberline 9490 OK Cosmetic
Twin Peaks 4890 OK Cosmetic

(1) No longer supported.

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Magnetic Tape Subsystems

Name Year 2000 ready Change
ALPHA 32 OK (1) Cosmetic
ALPHA 32 OK (1) Cosmetic
ALPHA 40 & MTP 80xx Controller OK (1) Cosmetic
MTS 8200 (controller & device) OK (1)  

(1) No longer supported and no replacement.

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Mass Storage Subsystems

Name Year 2000 ready Change
Mass Storage Units for CDA OK New

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Media Server 8

Name Year 2000 ready Change
Media Server 8 OK New

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Impact Printers

Name Year 2000 ready Change
PR54 printers OK (1) Cosmetic
PR71 printers OK (1) Cosmetic
PRU5000 printers OK (1) Cosmetic

(1) No longer supported.

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Non-Impact Printers

---> See Nipson printing solutions section.


Networking Subsystems

---> See Networking section for Year 2000 readiness of Datanet, MainWay2000, and FCP8 networking subsystems.


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Notice
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