• IBM POWER is a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architecture (ISA) developed by IBM. The name is an acronym for Performance Optimization...
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    set architecture (ISA) created by the 1991 Apple–IBM–Motorola alliance, known as AIM. PowerPC, as an evolving instruction set, has been named Power ISA...
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  • IBM POWER (or IBM Power) may refer to: IBM POWER (software), an IBM operating system enhancement package IBM POWER architecture, a predecessor to the...
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  • they implemented the POWER instruction set architecture (ISA), which evolved into PowerPC and later into Power ISA. In August 2019, IBM announced it would...
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    IBM Power Systems is a family of server computers from IBM that are based on its Power processors. It was created in 2008 as a merger of the System p and...
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    IBM i (the i standing for integrated) is an operating system developed by IBM for IBM Power Systems. It was originally released in 1988 as OS/400, as...
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  • engineering team at IBM Rochester began work on a new architecture known as C-RISC (Commercial RISC) to replace the IMPI architecture of the AS/400. C-RISC...
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  • of the system running on a series of 64-bit PowerPC-derived CPUs, which later were developed into the IBM RS64 family. Due to the use of TIMI, applications...
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    Power ISA is a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architecture (ISA) currently developed by the OpenPOWER Foundation, led by IBM...
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  • by engineers from IBM and Motorola as a part of the AIM alliance. Somerset was opened in 1992 and its goal was to make the first PowerPC processor and then...
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  • Cell (processor) (redirect from IBM Cell)
    developed by Sony, Toshiba, and IBM—an alliance known as "STI". It combines a general-purpose PowerPC core, named the Power Processing Element (PPE), with...
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    SPARC systems. IBM eventually produced RISC designs based on further work on the 801 concept, the IBM POWER architecture, PowerPC, and Power ISA. As the...
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    The IBM System/370 (S/370) is a range of IBM mainframe computers announced as the successors to the System/360 family on June 30, 1970. The series mostly...
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  • package IBM POWER architecture, a RISC instruction set architecture Power ISA, a RISC instruction set architecture derived from PowerPC IBM Power microprocessors...
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  • time with repeated calls of small subroutines. The IBM POWER architecture, and its PowerPC and Power ISA successors, have a special-purpose link register...
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    created the PowerPC architecture in the early 1990s via the AIM alliance, the 970 family was created through a further collaboration between IBM and Apple...
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    rebranded from: IBM RS/6000 to IBM eServer pSeries, p for POWER IBM AS/400 to IBM eServer iSeries, i for Integrated IBM Netfinity to IBM eServer xSeries...
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    ISA based server and workstation computers such as IBM's Power line. Originally released for the IBM RT PC RISC workstation in 1986, AIX has supported...
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  • Systems Network Architecture (SNA) is IBM's proprietary networking architecture, created in 1974. It is a complete protocol stack for interconnecting...
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    available only in selected markets. Industry standard ISA/PCI architecture, first IBM machines with USB. Processors ranged from the 486DX2-50, 486SX-25...
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  • The IBM System/360 architecture is the model independent architecture for the entire S/360 line of mainframe computers, including but not limited to the...
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    principal designer of the original IBM POWER architecture. His idea was to build computers based on a RISC architecture for the commercial market. The inspiration...
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  • AltiVec (redirect from POWER VSX)
    is implemented on versions of the PowerPC processor architecture, including Motorola's G4, IBM's G5 and POWER6 processors, and P.A. Semi's PWRficient...
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    The IBM Personal Computer AT (model 5170, abbreviated as IBM AT or PC/AT) was released in 1984 as the fourth model in the IBM Personal Computer line,...
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    was an IBM project aimed at designing supercomputers that can reach operating speeds in the petaFLOPS (PFLOPS) range, with relatively low power consumption...
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    An IBM PC compatible is any personal computer that is hardware- and software-compatible with the IBM Personal Computer (IBM PC) and its subsequent models...
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    IBM in the 1990s. The RS/6000 family replaced the IBM RT PC computer platform in February 1990 and is the first computer line to see the use of IBM's...
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    and to be connected to the central host mainframe, using IBM Systems Network Architecture (SNA). Although its successor's role in distributed data processing...
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    IBM Z is a family name used by IBM for all of its z/Architecture mainframe computers. In July 2017, with another generation of products, the official family...
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  • PowerLinux is the combination of a Linux-based operating system (OS) running on PowerPC- or Power ISA-based computers from IBM. It is often used in reference...
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