2nd life/info for IBM RS6000 type 7012?

From: Philip.Belben_at_pgen.com <(Philip.Belben_at_pgen.com)>
Date: Thu Sep 7 11:43:29 2000

>> Might be . . . I think that is a Power PC chip and there is a Linux for PPC,
>> but sold under the Macintosh banner. I have a PPC distro, but it is geared
>> for the PPC card in an Amiga.
>
> Not necessarily -- it could be the old POWER architecture. There is no Linux
> for that, at least that I'm aware of.

We have three 7012s at work. Two are model 320, one (the one which actually
booted last time I switched it on!) is a model 375.

They use the old Power RISC chipset in its various incarnations. We migrated to
a Sun 450 about 2 years ago when we discovered that all the RS/6000 models in
our price range were PPC and slower than our existing 375 (the exception being
the model 397 - presumably another 7012 - but even that was a bit expen, and we
wondered how long they'd go on supporting it)

> I run AIX 4.1.4 on this Apple Network Server 500, which is itself a PPC 604e.
> LinuxPPC is *kind of* supported on this platform -- I hear it still has some
> X issues. Never mind, I love SMIT always. ;-)

ROFL! But Solstice is worse...

One thing to beware, at least on our 7012 machines, is that if you want to add a
keyboard, you need a special one. PC keyboard doesn't work (no need to guess
how I found that out a couple of office moves ago...). Display is 1280*1024,
can't remember the scanning rates, on 3 BNCs, sync on green. An IBM 6019 is
recommended :-) Mouse is a standard PS/2 mouse - plugged it into my PC and it
the setup said it had detected a Logitech mouse...
Philip.




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