[rescue] *BSD on Sparc?

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 08:47:08AM -0700, James Lockwood wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> 
> > Hmm.  I didn't know that they started the power series until about the
> > time as PPC.  Well, learn something new every day.
> 
> POWER (RIOS) shipped in 1989.  The first PowerPC system (the RS/6k model
> 250) shipped in late 1993.

So then is every RS/6000 machine either a POWER machine or a PPC machine?
 
> Did you know that the original motivation for Microchannel was to provide
> for a better S/3[79]0 expansion bus that could meet FCC code 16 regs for
> interference?  It was slapped into the PS/2 systems as an afterthought.

I did not know that.  Was it actually used int the S/3[79]0 machines?
And what is FCC code 16, and why did IBM need to meet it in a mainframe?

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Joshua D. Boyd