6 Jul
2000
6 Jul
'00
3:12 p.m.
IIRC, AIX wouldn't run on them. I'm pretty
sure they were CHRP boxes. Does
AIX run on CHRP boxes?
I think it will.
For that matter I'm not sure, but they were
probably
about the only CHRP boxes that were built.
Even if the PowerPC boxes were fairly unique (that is, not like an
RS/6000), it would not be a big suprise to find that they were scrapped,
with the parts being put into the RS/6000 line. IBM is very good about
recycling their old parts into new machines - chips, power supplies,
switches, brackets, etc.. In fact, many of the RS/6000-250s I used to
deal with came with little slips of paper saying that the some of the
machines were built from older parts.
As a side note, IBM has been reusing some of their 4997 standard racks in
some newer networking gear. These racks were originally part of S/1
systems, built in the late 1970s/early 1980s.
William Donzelli
aw288(a)osfn.org