[TriLUG] Re: Which distro for rs/6000 AIX box?

James Manning jmm at sublogic.com
Thu Apr 3 14:46:47 EST 2003


> [James Manning]
> > [Heath Holcomb]
> > RS/6000 does use PPC chips.
> 
> Not exclusively, though - The Power4-based boxen aren't likely to have
> a working distro at the moment (that I've heard about, at least), not
> sure about the various RS64's
> 
> http://www.rs6000.ibm.com/

Just to clarify, this was more to keep people from thinking that all
rs6k's could run ppc distro's - the model 140 (and later 150) are
indeed 32-bit PPC 604e based systems :)

for the 150's specs, you can check out

http://www-132.ibm.com/content/home/store_IBMPublicUSA/en_US/eServer/pSeries/entry/43P150.html

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