[rescue] RS/6000 board ID

Julius Sridhar vance at ikickass.org
Wed Feb 13 15:19:56 CST 2002


On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Andrew Weiss wrote:

> >    Really? I thought IBM ditched the POWER family and MCA in favor of the
> > 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.
>
> PPC is part of the POWER family.  PowerPC... Performance optimized with
> enhanced risc.  The latest POWER is the POWER4... very nice equipment.

Actually PowerPC architecture is a subset of POWER architecture.

Peace...  Sridhar



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