[rescue] RS/6000 board ID

[Julius Sridhar]

On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Eric Webb wrote:

> > >    Really? I thought IBM ditched the POWER family and MCA in favor of the
> > > PPC and PCI years ago.
> >
> > PPC is a subset of POWER.  Their newest machine is POWER4-based.
>
> Yes, remember that IBM was one of the original co-founders of the PPC (along
> with Moto and Apple, right?)

IBM owned the architecture.  Apple wanted to build systems.  IBM scaled
down the POWER architecture to less than half it's capability to make the
PowerPC cheap.  Motorola fabbed the chips.  IBM made cheaper RS/6000's
with PowerPC's and faster RS/6000's with POWER2's.

Peace...  Sridhar