>>>>> "Phillip" == Phillip R Jaenke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Phillip> On Mon, Aug 23, 1999 at 09:17:03AM -0700, Matt Porter
Phillip> wrote:
>> BTW, I did some searching around and still can't find anything
>> that clearly states what architecture a 40P is. Just some
>> vague references to them working under Linux. Seems that is a
>> 43P is PReP arch then a 40P would be as well. But who am I to
>> know what the "P" signifies?
Phillip> Lemme do some guesswork real quick here, based off what I
Phillip> know.
Phillip> The 43P is the successor to the 40P. Therefore, it would
Phillip> be a fairly logical assumption to guess that the 40P is a
Phillip> 603e, 603, or POWER2 processor system, likely to be
Phillip> single to twin processor, with MCA bus. This is based off
Phillip> the fact that the RS/6000 43P Power260 is a single POWER3
Phillip> processor in it's workstation incarnation, and up to dual
Phillip> POWER3 in it's workgroup server incarnation. The 43P
Phillip> Power140 is a single or dual 604e. The 43P Power150 is a
Phillip> single 604e. Therefore, I'm guessing that we're looking
Phillip> at PReP with only MCA and probably 603
Phillip> processors. Possibly, but highly unlikely, 604eX5's.
This is off the top of my head (but reasonably reliable :-). The 40P
is a 66MHz 601 based PowerPC, PCI/ISA bus, single processor only
model. It was the first of the PCI PowerPC workstations released I
believe (43P came out some months afterwards) - because of the 601 its
rather slow (in comparison to the 604 based machines that came out
soon after).
Sincerely,
Adrian Phillips
