12 Jul
2001
12 Jul
'01
2:47 p.m.
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Netdiablo wrote:
Master of all that Sucks wrote:
> > > Also, at the same place there's an RS/6000 J50. Again, just the
> > > CPU box itself and no way of testing anything.
> >
> > Probably just an early MCA bus POWER based machine. Again, its
> > kind of interesting in that I don't see IBM RISC stuff very often,
> > but in the grand scheme of things, it's not as interesting as
> > the Aviion stuff (if its 88000 based).
>
> It's actually probably one of the last MCA designs. It's a very nice
> machine. (I want it.) It's an 8-processor deskside POWER2SC, I think. I
> think it's one of the fastest microchannel boxes ever made.
As far as I know the J50 is PowerPC based, not P2SC. I am sure because we
had several and they were all 604 machines. It can be expanded up to 8
processors, but usually it comes with 2 (most of the machines I used
anyway)
Cheers.
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