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RS/6000

RISC System/6000, or RS/6000 for short, is a family of RISC and UNIX

Unix

Unix is a computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of American Telephone & Telegraph employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson , Dennis Ritchie, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna....
based server

Server (computing)

A server is a computer program that provides services to other computer programs , in the same or other computer. The physical computer that runs a server program is also often referred to as server....
s, workstation

Workstation

A workstation is a high-end microcomputer designed for technical or scientific applications. Intended primarily to be used by one person at a time, they are commonly connected to a local area network and run multi-user operating systems....
s and supercomputer

Supercomputer

A supercomputer is a computer that is at the frontline of current processing capacity, particularly speed of calculation. Supercomputers introduced in the 1960s were designed primarily by Seymour Cray at Control Data Corporation , and led the market into the 1970s until Cray left to form his own company, Cray Research....
s made by IBM

IBM

International Business Machines Corporation, abbreviated IBM and nicknamed "Big Blue" , is a multinational corporation computer technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, New York, United States....
in the 1990s. The RS/6000 family replaced the IBM RT computer platform in February 1990 and was the first computers to see the use of IBM's POWER

IBM POWER

POWER is a RISC instruction set architecture designed by International Business Machines. The name is a backronym for Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC....
and PowerPC

PowerPC

PowerPC is a RISC instruction set architecture created by the 1991 Apple Inc.?IBM?Motorola alliance, known as AIM alliance. Originally intended for personal computers, PowerPC CPUs have since become popular embedded system and high-performance processors....
based microprocessors. RS/6000 was renamed eServer pSeries in October 2000.

first generations of RS/6000 systems used the Micro Channel

Micro Channel architecture

Micro Channel Architecture was a proprietary hardware 16-bit or 32-bit parallel communications computer bus created by International Business Machines in the 1980s for use on their new IBM Personal System/2 computers....
bus technology but later models used PCI

Peripheral Component Interconnect

The PCI Local Bus , or Conventional PCI, is a computer bus for attaching computer hardware in a computer. These devices can take either the form of an integrated circuit fitted onto the motherboard itself, called a planar device in the PCI specification or an expansion card that fits into a socket....
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RISC System/6000, or RS/6000 for short, is a family of RISC and UNIX

Unix

Server (computing)

Workstation

Supercomputer

IBM

IBM POWER

POWER is a RISC instruction set architecture designed by International Business Machines. The name is a backronym for Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC....
and PowerPC

PowerPC

History

The first generations of RS/6000 systems used the Micro Channel

Micro Channel architecture

Peripheral Component Interconnect

Prep

Prep may refer to:* P-rep, a statistical value of the probability of replicating an observed effect* Curtis Sittenfeld#Prep, a novel by Curtis Sittenfeld...
and CHRP

CHRP

CHRP may refer to:*Common Hardware Reference Platform*Certified Human Resources Professional...
plattforms, co-developed with Apple and Motorola

Motorola

Motorola, Inc. is an United States, multinational, Fortune 100, telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois. It is a manufacturer of wireless telephone handsets, also designing and selling wireless network infrastructure equipment such as cellular transmission base stations and signal amplifiers....
, with Open Firmware

Open Firmware

Open Firmware, or OpenBoot in Sun Microsystems parlance, is a standard defining the interfaces of a computer firmware system, formerly endorsed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers....
. The plan was to enable the use of a multitude of operating systems such as Windows NT

Windows NT

Windows NT is a family of operating systems produced by Microsoft, the first version of which was released in July 1993. It was originally designed to be a powerful high-level-language-based, processor-independent, multiprocessing, multiuser operating system with features comparable to Unix....
, NetWare

Novell NetWare

NetWare is a network operating system developed by Novell, Inc. It initially used cooperative multitasking to run various services on a personal computer, and the network protocols were based on the archetypal Xerox Xerox Network Services Protocol stack....
, OS/2

OS/2

OS/2 is a computer operating system, initially created by Microsoft and IBM, then later developed by IBM exclusively. The name stands for "Operating System/2," because it was introduced as part of the same generation change release as IBM's "IBM Personal System/2 " line of second-generation personal computers....
, Solaris, Taligent

Taligent

Taligent was the name of an Object-oriented programming operating system and the company dedicated to producing it. Initially started as a project within Apple Computer to produce a replacement for the Mac OS, it was later spun-off into a joint venture with IBM in order to build a competing platform to Microsoft Cairo and NeXTSTEP, as part o...
, AIX and Mac OS

Mac OS

Mac OS is the trademarked name for a series of graphical user interface-based operating systems developed by Apple Inc. for their Macintosh line of computer systems....
but in the end only IBM's UNIX variant AIX was used and supported on RS/6000. Linux

Linux

Linux is a generic term referring to Unix-like computer operating systems based on the Linux kernel. Their development is one of the most prominent examples of free and open source software collaboration; typically all the underlying source code can be used, freely modified, and redistributed by anyone under the terms of the GNU GPL license...
is widely used on CHRP based RS/6000s, but support was added after the RS/6000 name was changed to eServer pSeries in 2000.

RS/6000 types of computers are the POWERserver servers, POWERstation workstations and Scalable POWERparallel supercomputer platform. While most machines was desktops, desksides, or rack mounted, there was a laptop model too, the Model 860. A lot of famous computers are RS/6000 based, such as the P2SC

POWER2

The IBM POWER2 microprocessor was released in 1993 as the successor of the POWER1. The POWER2 ran from 55 to 71.5 MHz and improved on the POWER1 design by featuring an extra Arithmetic Logic Unit and floating point unit, increased cache sizes and new instructions....
based Deep Blue supercomputer that beat world champion Garry Kasparov

Garry Kasparov

Garry Kasparov is a Russian former World Chess Champion, regarded by many as Methods for comparing top chess players throughout history. He is also a writer and political activist....
at chess in 1997 and the POWER3

POWER3

The POWER3 chip is a CPU, designed and exclusively manufactured by IBM, that implements the 32/64-bit PowerPC instruction set architecture, including all of the optional instructions of the ISA such as the POWER2....
based ASCI White

ASCI White

ASCI White was a supercomputer at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory in California.It was a computer cluster based on International Business Machines's commercial RS/6000 SP computer....
which was the fastest computer in the world 2000-2002.

Models

Some models were marketed under the RS/6000 POWERstation and/or POWERserver names.

Type 7006

Model	CPU	MHz	L2/L3 Cache	Memory	Enclosure	Introduced	Discontinued
Model 41T	PowerPC 601 PowerPC 600 The PowerPC 600 family was the first family of PowerPC microprocessor built. They were designed at the Somerset facility in Austin, Texas, jointly funded and staffed by engineers from IBM and Motorola as a part of the AIM alliance....	80	0 or 512 KB	16 to 256 MB	Desktop	1994-06-??	?
Model 41W		80	0 or 512 KB	16 to 256 MB	Desktop	1994-06-??	?
Model 42T	PowerPC 604 PowerPC 600 The PowerPC 600 family was the first family of PowerPC microprocessor built. They were designed at the Somerset facility in Austin, Texas, jointly funded and staffed by engineers from IBM and Motorola as a part of the AIM alliance....	120	?	Up to 256 MB	Desktop	1995-06-19	?
Model 42W	PowerPC 604	120	?	?	?	?	?

Type 7007

Model	CPU	MHz	L2/L3 Cache	Memory	Enclosure	Introduced	Discontinued
Model N40	PowerPC 601	50	?	?	Notebook	1994-03-08	?

The Model N40 was PowerPC-based notebook developed and manufactured by Tadpole Technology

Tadpole Computer

Tadpole Computer is a manufacturer of rugged Unix workstations and thin client laptops and lightweight servers. Tadpole is based in Cupertino, California....
for IBM. It became available on 25 March 1994, priced at US$12,000. The internal batteries could power the system for 45 minutes only and an external battery pack was available for this reason.

Type 7008

Model	CPU	MHz	L2/L3 Cache	Memory	Enclosure	Introduced	Discontinued
Model M20	POWER1 POWER1 The POWER1 is a Integrated circuit Central processing unit developed and Semiconductor device fabrication by IBM that implemented the IBM POWER instruction set ....	33	None	16 to 64 MB	?	1993-02-02	?
Model M2A	POWER1	33	None	?	?	?	?

These workstations were marketed under the PowerStation name.

Type 7009

Model	CPU	MHz	L2/L3 Cache	Memory	Enclosure	Introduced	Discontinued
Model C10	PowerPC 601	80	0 or 1 MB	16 to 256	Desktop	June 1994	?
Model C1L	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Model C20	PowerPC 604	120	1 MB	?	Desktop	1995-06-19	?

Type 7010

Model	CPU	MHz	L2/L3 Cache	Memory	Enclosure	Introduced	Discontinued
Model 120	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Model 130	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Model 140	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Model 150	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Model 160	?	?	?	?	?	?	?

Type 7011

Model	CPU	MHz	L2/L3 Cache	Memory	Enclosure	Introduced	Discontinued
Model 220	RSC RISC Single Chip The RISC Single Chip, or RSC, is a single-chip microprocessor developed and Semiconductor device fabrication by IBM . The RSC was a feature-reduced single-chip implementation of the POWER1, a multi-chip central processing unit which implemented the IBM POWER instruction set architecture ....	33	None	?	Slimline Desktop	?	?
Model 22G	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Model 22W	POWER1	33	None	Up to 64 MB	?	?	?
Model 223	?	?	?	Up to 64 MB	?	?	?
Model 230	RSC	45	128 kB L2	?	?	?	?
Model 23E	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Model 23S	POWER1	45	None	?	?	?	?
Model 23T	POWER1	45	None	Up to 64 MB	?	?	?
Model 23W	POWER1	45	None	Up to 64 MB	?	?	?
Model 250	PowerPC 601	66	None	16 to 256 MB	Desktop	?	?
Model 25E	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Model 25F	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Model 25S	PowerPC 601	66	?	Up to 256 MB	?	?	?
Model 25T	PowerPC 601	66/80	?	Up to 256 MB	?	?	?
Model 25W	PowerPC 601	66/80	?	Up to 256 MB	?	?	?

Type 7012

Model	CPU	MHz	L2/L3 Cache	Memory	Enclosure	Introduced	Discontinued
Model 320	POWER1	20	None	8 to 32 MB	Desktop	?	?
Model 32E	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Model 32H	POWER1	25	None	Up to 128 MB	?	?	?
Model 340	POWER1	25	None	Up to 256 MB	?	?	?
Model 34H	POWER1	41.6	None	Up to 256 MB	?	?	?
Model 34L	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Model 34R	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Model 350	POWER1	41	None	Up to 128 MB	?	?	?
Model 355	POWER1	41	None	?	?	?	?
Model 35R	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Model 360	POWER1	50	None	Up to 256 MB	?	?	?
Model 365	POWER1	50	None	Up to 128 MB	?	?	?
Model 36T	POWER1	50	None	Up to 256 MB	?	?	?
Model 370	POWER1	50	None	Up to 256 MB	?	?	?
Model 375	POWER1++ POWER1 The POWER1 is a Integrated circuit Central processing unit developed and Semiconductor device fabrication by IBM that implemented the IBM POWER instruction set ....	62.5	None	Up to 128 MB	?	?	?
Model 37T	POWER1++	62.5	None	Up to 256 MB	?	?	?
Model 380	POWER2 POWER2 The IBM POWER2 microprocessor was released in 1993 as the successor of the POWER1. The POWER2 ran from 55 to 71.5 MHz and improved on the POWER1 design by featuring an extra Arithmetic Logic Unit and floating point unit, increased cache sizes and new instructions....	59	None	32 to 512 MB	?	June 1994	?
Model 390	POWER2+	67	1 MB	?	?	June 1994	?
Model 397	P2SC POWER2 The IBM POWER2 microprocessor was released in 1993 as the successor of the POWER1. The POWER2 ran from 55 to 71.5 MHz and improved on the POWER1 design by featuring an extra Arithmetic Logic Unit and floating point unit, increased cache sizes and new instructions....	160	?	128 to 1024 MB	?	?	?
Model 39H	POWER2	67	?	?	?	?	?
Model 39T	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Model G02	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Model G30	PowerPC 601 (1 or 2)	75	?	?	?	?	?
Model G40	PowerPC 604 (2 or 4)	112	?	?	?	?	?

The 380 and 390 are identical to the 3AT and 3BT workstations.

Type 7013

Model	CPU	MHz	L2/L3 Cache	Memory	Enclosure	Introduced	Discontinued
Model 520	POWER1	20	None	8 to 128 MB	Deskside	?	?
Model 52E	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Model 52H	POWER1	25	None	Up to 512 MB	Deskside	?	?
Model 530	POWER1	25	None	16 to 128 MB	Deskside	?	?
Model 53E	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Model 53H	POWER1	33	None	?	?	?	?
Model 540	POWER1	30	None	64 to 256 MB	Deskside	?	?
Model 550	POWER1	41	None	?	Deskside	?	?
Model 55E	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Model 55L	POWER1	41.6	None	Up to 256 MB	Deskside	?	?
Model 55S	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Model 560	POWER1	50	None	Up to 1 GB	Deskside	?	?
Model 56F	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Model 570	POWER1	50	None	Up to 1 GB	Deskside	?	?
Model 571	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Model 57F	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Model 57L	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Model 580	POWER1++	62.5	None	Up to 1 GB	Deskside	?	?
Model 581	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Model 58F	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Model 58H	POWER2	55.6	None	64 MB to 2 GB	Deskside	?	?
Model 590	POWER2	66.7	None	64 MB to 2 GB	Deskside	?	?
Model 591	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Model 595	P2SC	135	?	?	?	?	?
Model 59H	POWER2+	66.7	1 MB	64 MB to 2 GB	Deskside	1994-06-??	?
Model J01	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Model J30	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Model J40	PowerPC 604 (2 to 8)	112	?	?	?	?	?
Model J50	PowerPC 604e PowerPC 600 The PowerPC 600 family was the first family of PowerPC microprocessor built. They were designed at the Somerset facility in Austin, Texas, jointly funded and staffed by engineers from IBM and Motorola as a part of the AIM alliance.... (2 to 8)	200	?	?	?	1997-04-03	1999-01-08

Type 7014

Model	CPU	MHz	L2/L3 Cache	Memory	Enclosure	Introduced	Discontinued
Model S00	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Model T00	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Model T42	?	?	?	?	?	?	?

Type 7015

Model	CPU	MHz	L2/L3 Cache	Memory	Enclosure	Introduced	Discontinued
Model 920	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Model 930	POWER1	25	None	16 to 128 MB	Rack	?	?
Model 950	?	?	?	Up to 512 MB	Rack	?	?
Model 95E	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Model 960	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Model 970	?	?	?	Up to 1 GB	Rack	?	?
Model 97B	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Model 97E	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Model 97F	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Model 980	POWER1++	62.5	None	Up to 1 GB	Rack	?	?
Model 98B	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Model 98E	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Model 98F	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Model 990	POWER2	71.5	None	128 MB to 2 GB	Rack	?	?
Model 99E	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Model 99F	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Model 99J	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Model 99K	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Model R00	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Model R10	POWER1	50	None	128 MB to 1 GB	Rackmount	1994-06-??	?
Model R20	POWER2+	66	1 MB	128 MB to 2 GB	Rackmount	1994-06-??	?
Model R21	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Model R24	POWER2+	71.5	2 MB	128 to 2 GB	Rackmount	1994-06-??	?
Model R30	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Model R40	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Model R4U	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Model R50	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Model R5U	?	?	?	?	?	?	?

Type 7016

Model	CPU	MHz	L2/L3 Cache	Memory	Enclosure	Introduced	Discontinued
Model 730	POWER1	2	None	16 to 128 MB	Deskside	?	?
Model 731	?	?	?	?	?	?	?

Type 7017

Model	CPU	# of CPUs	MHz	L2/L3 Cache	Memory	Enclosure	Introduced	Discontinued
S70	RS64	4, 8 or 12	125	?	?	?	1997-10-31	1999-12-13
S70	RS64-II	4, 8 or 12	262	?	?	?	?	1999-12-13
S7A	RS64-II	4 to 12	262	?	?	?	1998-10-23	2000-12-01
S80	RS64-III	6 to 24	450	8 MB L2	2 to 64 GB	2+ rack(s)	1999-09-24	2001-08-31

Type 7020

Model	CPU	MHz	L2/L3 Cache	Memory	Enclosure	Introduced	Discontinued
Model 0U0	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Model 40P	PowerPC 601	66	?	?	Desktop	?	?
Model B1B	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Model B1C	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Model D1D	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Model D2D	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Model D4E	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Model SPE	?	?	?	?	?	?	?

Type 7024

Model	CPU	MHz	L2/L3 Cache	Memory	Enclosure	Introduced	Discontinued
Model E20	?	?	?	?	Deskside	?	?
Model E20	PowerPC 604e	233	?	?	Deskside	1997-04-??	?
Model E30	PowerPC 604	166	?	64 to 1024 MB	Deskside	?	?
Model E30	PowerPC 604e	233	?	64 to 1024 MB	Deskside	1997-04-??	?

Type 7025

Model	CPU	MHz	L2/L3 Cache	Memory	Enclosure	Introduced	Discontinued
Model F30	PowerPC 604	133	?	?	Tower	1996-02-??	?
Model F40	PowerPC 604e (2)	166	?	?	?	1996-10-??	?
Model F50	PowerPC 604	?	?	?	?	?	?
Model F80	RS64-III (Up to 6)	450/500	2/4 MB (SMP)	8/16 GB (SMP)	Desktop	2000-05-08	?
Model F85	?	?	?	?	?	?	?

Type 7026

Model	CPU	MHz	L2/L3 Cache	Memory	Enclosure	Introduced	Discontinued
Model H10	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Model H50	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Model H70	RS64-II (Up to 4)	340 MHz	?	Up to 8 GB	Rack	1999-04-23	2001-07-17
Model H80	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Model M80	?	?	?	?	?	?	?

Type 7027

Model	CPU	MHz	L2/L3 Cache	Memory	Enclosure	Introduced	Discontinued
Model HSD	?	?	?	?	?	?	?

Type 7030

Model	CPU	MHz	L2/L3 Cache	Memory	Enclosure	Introduced	Discontinued
Model 355	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Model 375	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Model 37T	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Model 397	P2SC	160	?	?	?	?	?
Model 3AT	POWER2	59	None	32 to 512 MB	Desktop	June 1994	?
Model 3BT	POWER2+	67	1 MB	?	Desktop	June 1994	?
Model 3CT	POWER2	67	?	?	Desktop	?	?

Type 7043

Model	CPU	MHz	L2/L3 Cache	Memory	Enclosure	Introduced	Discontinued
Model 43P-140	PowerPC 604e	166/200/233/332	?	?	Deskside	?	?
Model 43P-150	PowerPC 604e	250/375	1 MB	64 to 1024 MB	Deskside	1999	2003
Model 43P-240	PowerPC 604e (1 or 2)	233	?	64 to 1024 MB	Deskside	?	?
Model 43P-260	POWER3 POWER3 The POWER3 chip is a CPU, designed and exclusively manufactured by IBM, that implements the 32/64-bit PowerPC instruction set architecture, including all of the optional instructions of the ISA such as the POWER2.... (1 or 2)	200	4 MB L2 per CPU	128 MB to 4GB	Deskside	?	?
Model 43P-270	?	?	?	?	?	?	?

Type 7044

Model	CPU	MHz	L2/L3 Cache	Memory	Enclosure	Introduced	Discontinued
Model 44P-170	POWER3-II POWER3 The POWER3 chip is a CPU, designed and exclusively manufactured by IBM, that implements the 32/64-bit PowerPC instruction set architecture, including all of the optional instructions of the ISA such as the POWER2....	333/400/450	1/4/8 MB L2	256 MB to 2 GB	Deskside	?	?
Model 44P-270	POWER3-II (Up to 4)	375/450	?	256 MB to 16 GB	Deskside	?	?

Type 7046

Model	CPU	MHz	L2/L3 Cache	Memory	Enclosure	Introduced	Discontinued
Model B50	PowerPC 604e	375	1 MB	Up to 1 GB ECC DIMM	2U Rackmount	1999	2003

Type 7248

Model	CPU	MHz	L2/L3 Cache	Memory	Enclosure	Introduced	Discontinued
Model 100	PowerPC 604	100	256 kB L2	?	Desktop	?	?
Model 120	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Model 132	?	?	?	?	?	?	?

Type 4249

Model	CPU	MHz	L2/L3 Cache	Memory	Enclosure	Introduced	Discontinued
Model 860	PowerPC 603e PowerPC 600 The PowerPC 600 family was the first family of PowerPC microprocessor built. They were designed at the Somerset facility in Austin, Texas, jointly funded and staffed by engineers from IBM and Motorola as a part of the AIM alliance....	166	?	32 to 96 MB	Notebook	1996-10	?

RS/6000

History

Models

Type 7006

Type 7007

Type 7008

Type 7009

Type 7010

Type 7011

Type 7012

Type 7013

Type 7014

Type 7015

Type 7016

Type 7017

Type 7020

Type 7024

Type 7025

Type 7026

Type 7027

Type 7030

Type 7043

Type 7044

Type 7046

Type 7248

Type 4249

See also