RE: IBM Delivers World's Fastest POWER 5 Processor

I was waiting for someone to pick up on this.  I wrote the author of the
article a note about the May 4th i5 announcement.   (see below)

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You wrote "IBM today unveiled first commercial products based on its POWER 5
processors aimed at high-end server applications. With the announcement IBM
declares performance leadership in the powerful server segment."
 
Sorry but IBM is already using the Power 5 chip in it's eServer i5 (was
iSeries, AS/400) announced May 4th, 2004.  The "p" box is built using the i5
570 chassis.  Your should learn the i5 is an OS/400 system that can also run
Linux, Windows, and AIX in it's partitions.   Because of the i5 the p5 OS 5L
v5.3 of AIX now supports micro-partitioning, Virtual Storage, and Virtual
Ethernet.
 
Please get it right, the i5 was the first commercial products based on its
POWER 5 processors aimed at high-end server applications.
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Doug Hart
 
 

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Pete Massiello
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 9:09 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: IBM Delivers World's Fastest POWER 5 Processor

I would argue that IBM did this in early May when it announced the new i5s
for iSeries.

Pete Massiello


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> IBM today unveiled first commercial products based on its POWER 5 
> processors aimed at high-end server applications. With the 
> announcement IBM declares performance leadership in the powerful 
> server segment.
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> http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/20040713171344.html
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> Doug Hart
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