[rescue] IBM RS6k 7006

[Andrew Weiss]

Yeah it seems my POWER 25 Mhz is possibly faster than the 41 T which is 
an 80 Mhz PPC 601

Andrew

On Thursday, July 4, 2002, at 01:47 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:

> On July 4, Harri Haataja wrote:
>> So tonight, just for the hell of it, I took a trip to a store nearby
>> that buys out old things from companies and new things as well and sell
>> them both over net and from the storeroom. Mostly PC, though, but 
>> cables
>> and laser printers and whatnot are universal, so what the hell. I was
>> looking through the heaps of cables and cards when a red sticker saying
>> "PowerPC" caught my attention.
>
>   That's cool.  Though hacking on RS/6000 stuff for the first time over
> the past few months has taught me VERY thoroughly just how much the
> PowerPC is a "scaled down" POWER-architecture machine.  I have a 66MHz
> POWER2 machine here (RS/6000 3CT) that runs rings around 604e/200s.
> By extrapolation I'd have to guess it'd be comparable to a 604e at,
> say 250MHz or maybe 275MHz.  Not bad at a 66MHz clock.