<s>
The	O
UNIVAC	O
9000	O
series	O
(	O
9200	O
,	O
9300	O
,	O
9400	O
,	O
9700	O
)	O
is	O
a	O
discontinued	O
line	O
of	O
computers	O
introduced	O
by	O
Sperry	O
Rand	O
in	O
the	O
mid-1960s	O
to	O
compete	O
with	O
the	O
low	O
end	O
of	O
the	O
IBM	B-Application
System/360	I-Application
series	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
9200	O
and	O
9300	O
(	O
which	O
differ	O
only	O
in	O
CPU	O
speed	O
)	O
implement	O
the	O
same	O
restricted	O
16-bit	O
subset	O
of	O
the	O
System/360	B-Application
instruction	O
set	O
as	O
the	O
IBM	O
360/20	O
,	O
while	O
the	O
UNIVAC	B-Device
9400	I-Device
implements	O
a	O
subset	O
of	O
the	O
full	O
32-bit	O
System/360	B-Application
instruction	O
set	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
1972	O
,	O
UNIVAC	O
stopped	O
development	O
of	O
its	O
9000	O
series	O
systems	O
,	O
in	O
favor	O
of	O
hardware	O
acquired	O
from	O
RCA	O
,	O
now	O
called	O
UNIVAC	B-Device
Series	I-Device
90	I-Device
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
9000	O
series	O
uses	O
monolithic	O
integrated	O
circuits	O
for	O
logic	O
and	O
plated-wire	B-General_Concept
memory	I-General_Concept
;	O
the	O
latter	O
functions	O
somewhat	O
like	O
core	B-General_Concept
memory	I-General_Concept
but	O
uses	O
a	O
non-destructive	O
read	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Since	O
the	O
9000	O
series	O
was	O
intended	O
as	O
direct	O
competitors	O
to	O
IBM	O
,	O
they	O
use	O
80-column	O
cards	O
and	O
EBCDIC	B-Language
character	O
encoding	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
9700	O
was	O
said	O
to	O
be	O
three	O
to	O
five	O
as	O
powerful	O
as	O
the	O
9400	O
,	O
twice	O
as	O
powerful	O
as	O
the	O
IBM	B-Device
System/360	I-Device
Model	I-Device
50	I-Device
,	O
and	O
less	O
costly	O
than	O
the	O
IBM	B-Device
System/370	I-Device
Model	I-Device
145	I-Device
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
new	O
operating	O
system	O
for	O
the	O
9700	O
,	O
called	O
OS/7	B-Operating_System
was	O
under	O
development	O
,	O
but	O
was	O
discontinued	O
in	O
1975	O
.	O
</s>
