Imagine running Windows 2000 natively on the AS/400. Well, it is at least within the realm of possibility, according to an IBM source.
The source said that within recent months Microsoft made a proposal to IBM to port its Windows 2000 operating system to run on the IBM Power-4 PowerPC processor. That next-generation 64-bit chip is slated for release in the AS/400 server late in 2001. The Power-4 will have 170 million transistors, NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access) architecture, and three levels of cache. IBM´s management is investigating the proposal and its status is uncertain, the source said.
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The source said that within recent months Microsoft made a proposal to IBM to port its Windows 2000 operating system to run on the IBM Power-4 PowerPC processor. That next-generation 64-bit chip is slated for release in the AS/400 server late in 2001. The Power-4 will have 170 million transistors, NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access) architecture, and three levels of cache. IBM´s management is investigating the proposal and its status is uncertain, the source said.
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