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Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 10:02:27 -0700
From: Charles Marslett <cmarslett9@cs.com>
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To: Sven.Riedel@tu-clausthal.de
CC: Dominik Kubla <kubla@sciobyte.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux and RS/6000 250
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Sven.Riedel@tu-clausthal.de wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 02:40:38PM +0100, Dominik Kubla wrote:
> > Add a 350 from me.  But the problem is not just the PPC/MCA combination,
> > but also the CPU. It's Power, not PowerPC!
> 
> Really? The IBM website says the following:
> 
> <quote>
> The IBM* RS/6000 Model 250 is flexible and powerful, and performs well
> as either a graphics workstation or a server. Driven by a 66MHz PowerPC
> 601* microprocessor,[...]
> </quote>
> 
> As can be seen at
> http://www1.ibmlink.ibm.com/cgi-bin/master?request=salesmanual&parms=SMS&xh=GYqgx1sg9i2Geo1USenGnN9332&xhi=usa.main%7Csalesmanual%5E&type=D&search=rs%2F6000+250&title=T&product=
> 
> Marketing strikes again, eh? :/
> 
> Regs,
> Sven
> --
> Sven Riedel                      sr@gimp.org
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>                                  - Larry Wall

Perhaps I should go back and dig out my docs, but I'm lazy -- IIRC, the 601 was
a hybrid chip -- it had most but not all of the basic PPC instruction set, and
it still had all the instructions in the Power instruction set that disappeared
in later PPCs.

--Charles 
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