IBM RS/6000 Model 7012/34H



 
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General Technical Information

HOSTNAME POWERBOX
SYSTEM CPU IBM POWER1 @41.6MHz
CACHE (2nd, 1st D/I) 0 KB, 32 KB /  32 KB
RAM  64 MB ECC SIMMs (Max. 256 MB)
SCSI BUS 1 x SCSI (5 MB/s)
OPTION BUS 4 x 32-bit Micro Channel card slots
GRAPHICS POWER Gt4e Graphics MCA card, 8-plane 1280x1024 @77Hz w/ 24-bit Z-buffer
HARD DISK DRIVE 2 GB 5400 RPM IBM
FLOPPY DISK DRIVE 1.44 MB 3.5" diskette drive
NETWORK 10 Mbps AUI or 10baseT w/ pin adapter and 16 Mbps IBM MCA Token Ring card
OS AIX 4.3.3
YEAR 1993
SPEED about 70 VAX MIPS
COMMENTS IBM AIX must be one of the worst looking *NIX systems ever made (that is, if you are used to DEC standard...). This machine runs AIX 4.3.3 with CDE quite well, it's useable but not very smooth.
ESTIMATED PRICE '93 $45,000

History and other comments

I got my two RS/6000 computers in September 2003. This system is a 1st generation IBM POWER architecture computer. From historical point of view it's interesting; the first type of POWER computers in the long line of IBM's RISC SYSTEM 6000 boxes. AFAIK the 7012/34H is not compatible with any Linux distribution (at least October 2003...). Please do let me know, if I'm mistaking.

It's also interesting for me to find out that this first POWER processor is implemented through multi-chip design. This seems to be  completely insane to a  DEC collector like me, since that's very far from both MIPS and Alpha (single-chip) implementations. Such multi-chip designs had only been seen in the past in physically big systems like DEC VAX 8xxx, and in some DEC PDPs.).

The 7012/34H is faster than my 7011/25E, eventhough it scores lower on some benchmarks (probably because of the low-speed CPU clock).
 
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