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----Bowie----
Mar 31, 2004, 04:50 PM
Ok, I don't get it. Is this IBM Power5 thing and the the G5 the same thing?


robbieduncan
Mar 31, 2004, 04:58 PM
No. IBMs POWER (note that its all caps) series are for high end servers. The PPC (PowerPC) 970 is based on a cut down POWER 4 with AltiVec added to it.
----Bowie----
Mar 31, 2004, 05:16 PM
No. IBMs POWER (note that its all caps) series are for high end servers. The PPC (PowerPC) 970 is based on a cut down POWER 4 with AltiVec added to it.

Ok, thanks.