RE: Playstation 3 could run OS/400 (was The Cell -- 64bit POWER P C)

Yeah, but when the night operator gets caught playing Tiger Woods 2006 all
night, instead of running dayend backup, then look out!

Eric DeLong
Sally Beauty Company
MIS-Project Manager (BSG)
940-297-2863 or ext. 1863



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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Larry Bolhuis
Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 11:52 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Playstation 3 could run OS/400 (was The Cell -- 64bit POWER
PC)


Finally an AS/400 with a built in console, and such a sight to see, 72" 
HDTV 5250 screen.  Can read that sucker all the way from the pool!  SWEET!!

  - Larry

Pat Barber wrote:

> Yes... it can.. don't forget to buy the raid-5 set for
> your tv.
>
>
> Wilt, Charles wrote:
>
>> Don't know if everybody has read this yet or not but here some more 
>> info on that new Cell CPU developed by IBM, Sony, and Toshiba.
>>
>> http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh030705-story02.html
>>
>> "The core at the heart of each Cell chip will be a derivative of 
>> either the Power5 or PowerPC 980 core. The former implements 
>> simultaneous multithreading (SMT), giving software two virtual 
>> threads to play with for each single thread. The PowerPC 970 did not 
>> have SMT support, and it did not have support for the special memory 
>> tags necessary to support the OS/400 operating system from IBM; 
>> PowerPC 9XX line of chips can run AIX, Linux, and MacOS, however. My 
>> sources at the iSeries Rochester Labs tell me that the Cell chip can 
>> indeed run OS/400, which seems to imply that either Cell is a 
>> derivative of the Power5 or the future PowerPC 9XX chips have add 
>> those special memory tags added."
>>
>> "The Cell chip will eventually be at the heart of the PlayStation 3 
>> game console, too."
>>
>>
>> "The question now is: Will it be cheaper to buy a real i5 server or 
>> buy a future Cell-based HDTV set and put OS/400 on it?"
>
>
>

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