Description
The GS8000 series was Fujitsu’s new mainframe computer series running on standard CMOS*1 processors. Fujitsu announced two model groups (GS8400 and GS8200) in May 1995 as successors to the M-1000 series. Fujitsu added the high-end GS8600 model group in January 1996. The GS8600 models used a CMOS processor with 1.7 times the performance of those on the GS8400 models. The GS8000 series servers were intended to be core servers that backed mission-critical client-server applications and presided over corporate-wide information management and processing. For this reason, Fujitsu marketed the models as global servers (GS).
