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Next Gen Amiga with Power10?
« on: March 25, 2024, 05:23:10 PM »
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power10

Are these processors much more expensive than latest Intel and AMD CPU's? Would there have been any benefit if a next gen Amiga was built so that it had 3 4 5 ghz cpu?
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Re: Next Gen Amiga with Power10?
« Reply #1 on: March 25, 2024, 05:32:25 PM »
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power10

Are these processors much more expensive than latest Intel and AMD CPU's? Would there have been any benefit if a next gen Amiga was built so that it had 3 4 5 ghz cpu?

Good luck getting one of those chips. IBM propriety CPU for AiX and A400 UNIX servers. The chips alone would be in the thousands to buy 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

The CPUs from what I understand will only work in Power Series Servers. I used administer Pseries systems for Financial institutions. Even then you had the CPU but had to buy Core licenses to switch them on.
 

Offline kolla

Re: Next Gen Amiga with Power10?
« Reply #2 on: March 27, 2024, 05:40:43 AM »
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IBM propriety CPU for AiX and A400 UNIX servers

Oh boy, that’s like saying latest Intel processors are made for Windows 2.0.

By A400, I presume you mean AS/400, which was renamed to OS/400 way back in 1988, only to be renamed a few more times since, currently it’s known as simply… i. Also, not UNIX (though providing compatibility layer for AIX software, AIX being the IBM UNiX)
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Offline Boing-ball

Re: Next Gen Amiga with Power10?
« Reply #3 on: March 27, 2024, 02:37:45 PM »
Oh boy, that’s like saying latest Intel processors are made for Windows 2.0.

By A400, I presume you mean AS/400, which was renamed to OS/400 way back in 1988, only to be renamed a few more times since, currently it’s known as simply… i. Also, not UNIX (though providing compatibility layer for AIX software, AIX being the IBM UNiX)

Calm down Sheldon 🤣🤣🤣🤣 This ain’t a nerd off… 🙄

The OP was only asking about Power10. ideally if he/her googled, then they would have found the answer.

 It’s been a while since using Advance Interactive eXecutable. When I worked with those systems they were known as SystemP and SystemI. Besides you can run LINUX on Power Systems as well 😉 It was an option when setting up LPARs on the HMC when I was administrating them.
Fun fact, both AIX 4.3.3 and then later AIX5L had LINUX extensions 😉 AIX was based off SystemV UNIX and also incorporated BSD. Still around even though HP/UX and SUN Solaris are hardly around in the present.

Haven’t a clue these days what IBM are doing, apart that they bought up RedHat and pushing Cloud.

I’m just interested in the retro systems and glad I’m out of that rat race and putting up with people who have no people skills 😬
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