What is an IBM PowerServer 370?

From: Philip.Belben_at_pgen.com <(Philip.Belben_at_pgen.com)>
Date: Tue Jun 29 11:39:48 1999

>> Runs AIX, based on the Power2 Processor (a PPC varient, or maybe it came
>> out before the PPC).
>
> Very similar, but the PowerPC has much of the good floating point
> hardware stripped out. Power2 has very good floating point performance -
> probably the best of any microprocessor ever made until very recently.


I'll second that. Not too long ago we were looking for a replacement for our
RS/6000 models 320 and 375. The only RS/6000 of a sesible size and price with
comparable floating point performance was the model 397. Why? It still used a
Power2SC processor. All the more modern ones use PPC and it slows, er, shows!

(we bought Sun in the end. With luck I'll get the 375 or both 320s. I don't
think I'll get all 3 machines :-( )

Philip
Received on Tue Jun 29 1999 - 11:39:48 BST