back to article Unisys weans itself off homebrew chippery, finally slurps Intel gear

Unisys has unveiled a new range of all-Intel colosso-servers, effectively closing the chapter on Unisys's own proprietary CMOS chips. The new ClearPath Dorado 8380 and 8390 systems the company will put on sale this week pack high-end Xeons into a 42U chassis and run OS 2200, Unisys' bundle of OS and apps. Unisys has been …

  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    This vs ES7000 ?

    What's the major selling point of this vs ES7000 then?

    'Cos you could allegedly get a multi-Xeon-based ES7000 "cellular mainframe" (?) several years back.

    Round about the same time you could allegedly get an IA64-based ES7000, in fact. Oh well.

    http://www.serverwatch.com/hreviews/article.php/3655386/Server-Snapshots-Unisys-ES7000one.htm

  2. DJV Silver badge

    That picture reminds me...

    ...must buy a new shed.

  3. Chris Evans

    "complementary metal oxide semiconductor"

    maybe they should have told what RAM stood for!

  4. Gershom

    Intel optimisation?

    Wow, Chipzilla is surprisingly a smaller form factor! The old architecture would have been in a 43U chassis….

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