The CII 10070 is a discontinued computer system from the French company
CII. It was part of the first series of computers manufactured in the late 1960s under
Plan Calcul
Plan Calcul was a French governmental program to promote a national or European computer industry and associated research and education activities.
The plan was approved in July 1966 by President Charles de Gaulle, in the aftermath of two key even ...
.
The 10070 is a rebadged
Scientific Data Systems
Scientific Data Systems (SDS), was an American computer company founded in September 1961 by Max Palevsky and Robert Beck, veterans of Packard Bell Corporation and Bendix, along with eleven other computer scientists. SDS was an early adopter of ...
(SDS)
Sigma 7. In addition to the Sigma software, a new
operating system
An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware, software resources, and provides common services for computer programs.
Time-sharing operating systems schedule tasks for efficient use of the system and may also i ...
was developed by teams from
INRIA
The National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology (Inria) () is a French national research institution focusing on computer science and applied mathematics.
It was created under the name ''Institut de recherche en informatiq ...
.
The 10070 is optimized for scientific calculation. It has 32-bit words, byte addressing, and 16
index register
An index register in a computer's CPU is a processor register (or an assigned memory location) used for pointing to operand addresses during the run of a program. It is useful for stepping through strings and arrays. It can also be used for hol ...
s. It can handle both
batch processing
Computerized batch processing is a method of running software programs called jobs in batches automatically. While users are required to submit the jobs, no other interaction by the user is required to process the batch. Batches may automatically ...
, and
time-sharing
In computing, time-sharing is the sharing of a computing resource among many users at the same time by means of multiprogramming and multi-tasking.DEC Timesharing (1965), by Peter Clark, The DEC Professional, Volume 1, Number 1
Its emergence ...
. It also has as a standard feature, similar to virtual memory except that it is only intended for instant memory-to-memory remapping for performance reasons, with no support for managing swapping to disk. This is managed by the time-sharing monitor.
The 10070 served as the basis for the design of the
Iris 50 and
Iris 80 series, which were entirely manufactured by CII.
Software
Operating systems
The CII 10070 runs several SDS and locally developed
operating systems:
*BPM (Batch Processing Monitor), single-stream
batch processing
Computerized batch processing is a method of running software programs called jobs in batches automatically. While users are required to submit the jobs, no other interaction by the user is required to process the batch. Batches may automatically ...
system with independent tasks, called ''symbionts'', to process card and printer inputs and outputs. This system was supplied by SDS.
*BTM
time sharing
In computing, time-sharing is the sharing of a computing resource among many users at the same time by means of multiprogramming and multi-tasking.DEC Timesharing (1965), by Peter Clark, The DEC Professional, Volume 1, Number 1
Its emergence ...
system from SDS.
*
Siris 7 from CII, a version of Siris 8 for the Iris 80.
*An experimental system, Ésope, was developed at IRIA.
Languages and utilities
Most of the software for the 10070 also came from SDS:
*Fortran IV H compiler
*Symbol (
assembly language)
*Metasymbol, a more powerful
assembler
Assembler may refer to:
Arts and media
* Nobukazu Takemura, avant-garde electronic musician, stage name Assembler
* Assemblers, a fictional race in the ''Star Wars'' universe
* Assemblers, an alternative name of the superhero group Champions of ...
*COBOL compiler
*PL/I compiler
[There is no record of a PL/I compiler from SDS]
*Sort
*CII Document retrieval system:
Mistral
Mistral may refer to:
* Mistral (wind) in southern France and Sardinia
Automobiles
* Maserati Mistral, a Maserati grand tourer produced from 1963 until 1970
* Nissan Mistral, or Terrano II, a Nissan 4×4 produced from 1993 until 2006
* Microp ...
See also
*
CII Iris 50
*
CII Iris 80
*
SDS Sigma series
The SDS Sigma series is a series of third generation computers that were introduced by Scientific Data Systems of the United States in 1966.
The first machines in the series are the 16-bit Sigma 2 and the 32-bit Sigma 7; the Sigma 7 was the firs ...
Notes
References
External links
System description from the Bull Teams Federation(machine-translated to English).
Picture of a CII 10070 at CERNScientific Data Systems The Sigma Family: Introducing Sigma from Scientific Data Systems. 1967Sigma 7 technical information
Mainframe computers
History of computing in France
Computers designed in France
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