New Z-series (390), AS400 and AIX boxes from IBM are based on Power4. You can think of the analogy:
80286 --> Pentium PowerPC --> Power4 PowerPC was built by Motorola, as a single-chip version of IBM's 3-chip PowerRISC - with trade-offs for consumer market. IBM benefited from Motorola's work, and took the PowerRISC to 64-bits on a single-chip. It's speculated that this is where the growth potential for Apple's platform may be... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason Johnston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 10:26 AM Subject: Re: Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 > Actually I think the S/390 platform is PPC based. > > On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 12:16, Joseph Phillips wrote: > > Are there any PPC servers? I don't think so. No market, no product. > > -- > Jason Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > -- > Phoebe-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/phoebe-list > -- Phoebe-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/phoebe-list
