Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!bywater!scifi!watson!arnor!biko!sck From: sck@watson.ibm.com (Scott C. Kennedy) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: name of RS6000 processor? Message-ID: <1991May7.203815.15472@watson.ibm.com> Date: 7 May 91 20:38:15 GMT References: Sender: news@watson.ibm.com (NNTP News Poster) Reply-To: sck@biko.watson.ibm.com (Scott C. Kennedy) Organization: IBM T. J. Watson Research Center Lines: 17 Nntp-Posting-Host: biko The true name of the RS/6000 processor is .... P.O.W.E.R. = Performance Optimized With Enhanced RISC The place where I found this nugget is the RISC System 6000 Technology book, (SA23-2619-00) it has articles on the Hardware Overview, Philosopies of the architecture, Floating-Point Unit, DCUs, SCUs, Micro Channel, I/O, Serial I/O, Self-testing, VLSI circuit design, Software overviews, compiler design, and all the "goodness" of AIX. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Scott C. Kennedy (sck@watson.ibm.com) | "All we are saying ... Distributed High Performance Computing | is give peace a chance..." I.B.M. Thomas J. Watson Research Facility | John Lennon - Dec. 8, 1980 ------------------------------------------------------------------------