OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/16648/IBM_Plans_Power6_Blades_for_Next_Year Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2012, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:05:08 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Ok, slightly off topic..... http://www.osnews.com/thread?188980 http://www.osnews.com/thread?188980 Is Power6 a "G5" style CPU, which I believe was Power5, right? If it is, can you then run OS X for PPC on it?

Not that anyone would, realistically....well maybe somebody would, just for kicks. That would probably be an expensive test.

Just wondering. Thu, 07 Dec 2006 00:04:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Phloptical) Comments RE: Ok, slightly off topic..... http://www.osnews.com/thread?188996 http://www.osnews.com/thread?188996 yeah youre off topic allright G5=Power4 or Power4 with extensions. Power5 Has still not been used in any mac. Thu, 07 Dec 2006 00:49:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (judgen) Comments RE: Ok, slightly off topic..... http://www.osnews.com/thread?189022 http://www.osnews.com/thread?189022 Power is PowerPC, but OS X would need modifications to run on the Power Hypervisor and would also need drivers for System p devices if you wanted to actually run it on a Power6 server. So no, you can't really run OS X on it. Thu, 07 Dec 2006 02:30:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Wes Felter) Comments RE: Ok, slightly off topic..... http://www.osnews.com/thread?189106 http://www.osnews.com/thread?189106 the g5 (ppc970) was a power4 derivate, but all power and powerpc processors are binary compatible, so you can install os x on it (you should have the right driver too, i suppose) Thu, 07 Dec 2006 09:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (gelosilente) Comments RE: Ok, slightly off topic..... http://www.osnews.com/thread?189147 http://www.osnews.com/thread?189147 Yes, Power6 is compatible with "G5" (VMX, new instructions etc)
But "G5" is not a Power5, it is ppc970 =)
Power5 cpu is probably more expensive than the whole Mac G5. Thu, 07 Dec 2006 12:10:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (viton) Comments RE[2]: Ok, slightly off topic..... http://www.osnews.com/thread?189250 http://www.osnews.com/thread?189250 The PowerPC is actually a subset of IBM's POWER Platform (yeah, that's how they're spelled).
Not sure if the POWER6 or the 5+ support AltiVec, but I don't think anyone ever tried running OS X on the thing. Besides, AIX rocks... Thu, 07 Dec 2006 17:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (lopisaur) Comments