https://computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/ibm-risc-system6000-family [https] Computer Ads from the Past SubscribeSign in Share this post [https] Computer Ads from the Past Computer Ads from the Past IBM RISC System/6000 Family Copy link Facebook Email Notes More IBM RISC System/6000 Family Just when PowerSeeker thought they had nowhere to go... May 01, 2024 4 Share this post [https] Computer Ads from the Past Computer Ads from the Past IBM RISC System/6000 Family Copy link Facebook Email Notes More 1 1 Share From the June 1990 issue of Byte magazine From the June 1990 issue of Byte magazine [https] The Company I previously wrote about the early days of IBM here: IBM JX May 1, 2023 IBM JX The Company IBM is one of those companies that seems like it has been around since the beginning of time. IBM was formed when Bundy Manufacturing Company, Tabulating Machine Company, International Time Recording Company, and Computing Scale Company of America merged in 1911. The oldest of the f... Read full story The Computer IBM debuted the RISC System/6000 line in February 1990. This family of products included RISC-powered servers, workstations, and supercomputers. It was the first line of computers to make use of the POWER and PowerPC processors. (IBM developed the PowerPC chips with Apple and Motorola.) The RISC System/6000 servers were replaced by the eServer pSeries. Workstations were sold under the RISC System/ 6000 name until 2002. Since the RS/6000 is designed for commercial and industrial use, there aren't a lot of reviews. The January 1991 issue of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' Computer magazine published an article entitled "A Performance Comparison of the IBM RS /6000 and the Astronautics ZS-1". Most of the article would only be interesting to a computer scientist. I found this conclusion near the end: "The RS/6000 implementation is clearly superior for this work load. One important caveat, however, is that the RS/6000 and ZS-1 were designed for fundamentally different environments. The RS/ 6000 is intended to serve as a high-speed workstation or compute/ file server on a network. Its full support of the IEEE floating-point standard would complicate the typical problems of implementing this architecture at a much faster clock speed. Its admirably short pipelines would also lengthen as the clock speed increases." Performance Computing printed a review of the IBM RS/6000 HA-H70 Cluster Server in their November 1999 issue. It concluded: "The cabinet design of the HA-H70's S00 rack shares features with other systems at the high end of the RS/6000 line--matte black in color, strongly architectural in appearance, and generally distinctive. The system engineering inside the cabinet provides ample room for expansion boards, RAM, and disk storage within each of the H70 units. Additionally, the system's design forms a good foundation for HA features, and we liked the structured robustness of the HA features within the HACMP software. We rate design as excellent for the HA-H70, and confer the corresponding four Performance Computing flags." I actually own an RS/6000 workstation. I bought it last year on Facebook Marketplace. It runs IBM AIX 4.3 with CDE 1.0. I haven't had much time to play with it. Hopefully, I'll get to it soon. My IBM RS/6000 43P Model 150 workstationMy IBM RS/6000 43P Model 150 workstationMy IBM RS/6000 43P Model 150 workstation My IBM RS/6000 43P Model 150 workstationMy IBM RS/6000 43P Model 150 workstation My IBM RS/6000 43P Model 150 workstationMy IBM RS/6000 43P Model 150 workstation My IBM RS/6000 43P Model 150 workstation Have you ever used any RISC System/6000 products? Do you know anything about its history? Tell us about it in the comments below. Share Leave a comment Computer Ads from the Past is a reader-supported publication. 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