Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!romp!auschs!d75!exeter.austin.ibm.com!woan From: woan@exeter.austin.ibm.com (Ronald S Woan) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix Subject: name of RS6000 processor? Summary: POWER architecture Message-ID: <3871@d75.UUCP> Date: 7 May 91 14:41:55 GMT References: Sender: news@d75.UUCP Reply-To: woan@cactus.org Organization: Austin School of Hardknocks Lines: 16 In article khaw@parcplace.com (Mike Khaw) writes: >Sun has SPARC, DEC/MIPS have MIPS, HP/Apollo has PRISM. Does the RISC >CPU in the RS/6000 have a name (other than RS/6000)? Well as far as IBM is concerned, the RISC System/6000 should never be referred to as the RS/6000 due to other companies trademarks. But anyway, the press as well as around IBM generally refer to the processor architecture as the POWER (Performance Enhanced With Enhanced RISC) architecture or sometimes with the various internal codenames stretching back to the old Americas research project. -- +-----All Views Expressed Are My Own And Are Not Necessarily Shared By------+ +------------------------------My Employer----------------------------------+ + Ronald S. Woan woan@cactus.org or woan@austin.vnet.ibm.com + + other email addresses Prodigy: XTCR74A Compuserve: 73530,2537 +