[geeks] Surprised

[Sridhar the POWERful]

On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, Brian Hechinger wrote:

> > Your 77MHz processor is a POWER2.  It is not a POWER2SC.  A POWER2SC is
> > not a POWER2.  The slowest POWER2SC is 135 MHz.  The fastest POWER2 is 80
> > MHz.
>
> a) what's the difference?  i thought the SC just meant Secondary Cache.

No.  It means Super Chip.  The POWER2 is in four (or was it five) chips.
The POWER was in six.  The POWER2SC is in one.

> b) what's the fastest POWER2SC.

160MHz.  It's what is in the RS/6000 397 and the RS/6000 SP1 Wide Node.

> > Thanks for the confidence.
>
> i know sun shit inside and out.  you are the same way with the ibm
> gear.  i am only slowly learning ibm gear.  it's definitely impressive
> shit.

Yeah, it is. 8-)

Peace...  Sridhar