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IBM Risc 6000 server

Producer: IBM - Category: Personal Computer

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Photo 1: airsynth, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (IBM RS-6000 7013 (1).jpg)

Server, 1990s, IBM. The RISC System/6000 (RS/6000) was IBM's line of Unix servers and workstations from 1990 to 2000, the first machines with the POWER architecture, running the AIX operating system. The family ranged from desktop workstations to large SMP servers and to the SP supercomputers used, for example, in the Deep Blue chess computer. This unit is a server model of the family whose exact type is to be verified.

Years1990 to 2000
ProcessorIBM POWER, POWER2 or PowerPC depending on the model
Operating systemAIX
BusMicro Channel on the early models, PCI on the later ones
StorageSCSI disks, tape, CD-ROM

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