Re: Power6 on System i -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: Power6 on System i
From: "Steve Richter" <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 14:22:48 -0400
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On 5/23/07, Trevor Perry <trevor@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

David,

Frank also talked about the differences between Power and PowerPC. Power is
a superset of PowerPC, and i5/OS uses the complete superset.

I dont follow. i5/OS runs on PowerPC.

Since AIX and
Linux use the PowerPC subset, they can get to market far quicker than i5/OS
can on a new Power chip.

The new Power6 runs twice as fast as the Power5+. Why would i5/OS not
run, without customization, twice as fast on the new Power chip?

-Steve

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Follow-Ups:

Re: Power6 on System i , Keith Carpenter
Re: Power6 on System i , Trevor Perry

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