"Mike Bresnahan" <mbresnah at visi.com> wrote: > > According to the latest SPEC2000 benchmarks, the IBM eServer pSeries 690 > Turbo is a screamer. It has a "POWER4" CPU in it. I've never heard of the > machine or the CPU before. Has anyone else? The POWER4 chip is a 64-bit descendant of IBM's earlier RS/6000, POWER, and PowerPC chips. I guess I can't remember if the POWER3 was 64-bit or not.. I'm pretty sure the pSeries is a descendant of the RS/6000 workstation. The same chip (or at least a very close relative to it) can be found in the AS/400. I'm not sure how mature Linux's 64-bit PPC support is, though IBM is actively supporting development on it. At least a few people in Rochester are working on it.. -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ E pluribus unum / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20011212/8a2815a2/attachment.pgp