[rescue] RS/6000??

Paul Sladen rescue at sunhelp.org
Wed Oct 17 06:02:56 CDT 2001


On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> > Are the PPCs and POWERs binary compatible?
> 
> I am wondering if the new G5 will be based on the PWR4 architecture.....

Thought I remember talking an IBM rep 18months ago, and him saying that the
then currently-shipping Big Iron (S/390?) already was using copper PPC6
chips.

Correct me, I'm intrigued,
Paul





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