[rescue] RS6000

Patrick Finnegan pat at computer-refuge.org
Wed Apr 20 17:15:38 CDT 2005


On Wednesday 20 April 2005 14:18, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> >>> Nothing other than a 43P-150 or F50 will run AIX 5.2,
> >>> unfortunately.
> >>
> >> False!  An F40 will... like, for example, the one cluttering up my
> >> living room...
> >
> > Ah, you're right.  An F40 is CHRP.  I'd forgotten about that model.
>
> Okay, now I'm doubleplusconfused.  To my knowledge, AIX 5.2 only runs
> on CHRP hardware.  Also, everything I can find on the F40 says it's a
> PReP box.
>
> Are you -sure- you have a 7025-F40 running AIX version 5.2?  Because
> that would really mess with my head. :)

Hmm, looks like you're right.  I think the F40 is the only PCI 
multiprocessor RS/6000 that ISNT chrp.

Darn.

Pat
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