[rescue] RS/6000 board ID

George Adkins george at webbastard.org
Wed Feb 13 02:40:20 CST 2002


> > PPC and PCI years ago. I don't recall seeing a date later than about 1993
> > anywhere in the box, although that doesn't prove anything.
>
> MCA is gone now, but that machine was one of the last.  IBM never
> abandoned POWER.  The only reason they use PowerPC chips is they are
> cheaper.  The latest and greatest fast RS/6000's are POWER4-based.  POWER4
> is ridiculously fast.
>
The last article I reas concerning Power4 was that it was going to have up to 
4 cores in one carrier package, all with independent interconnects...

Awesome!



George



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