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Reduced Instruction Set Computers (RISCs) are IBM's UNIX-based desktop workstations. This manual examines the latest releases and models in the line, and demonstrates how they can be put to work in any business.
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Written by an IBM insider, IBM RISC System/6000, Fifth Edition is the businessperson′s complete guide to all important details of every model. Revised and updated, this Fifth Edition includes information on new releases of the RISC System/6000 hardware and software.
Provides detailed information on selecting and integrating the right RISC System/6000, and what it can do for your business
- Offers detailed coverage of the new systematic multiprocessors
- Covers Power PC architecture used in some RISC System/ 6000 models and developed jointly by IBM/Apple and Motorola
- Explains IBM′s Power and Power 2 architecture, which gives the RISC System/6000 its impressive performance
- Describes the many options and peripherals available for the RISC System/6000
- Discusses network configurations and purchase planning, training, maintenance, and security issues
- Covers over a dozen new RISC System/6000 models and new Xstations
- Covers the AIX operating system and many new extension products that support functions such as Distributed Computing Environment (DCE), continuous speech recognition, object–oriented programming, client/server computing, and many more
- Covers the new 9333/9334 disk drive models as well as new graphics adapters, RAIDiant disk drive arrays, printers, optical disk drives, and tape drives
- Supplies three examples of organizations that were outfitted with RISC System/6000 hardware and software to meet their needs in both commercial and technical environments
About the Author
JIM HOSKINS is the founder of Maximum Press and a former IBMer with ten years′ experience as an IBM design engineer, IBM manager, and IBM marketing representative. As part of the original development team for the IBM PS/2 family, Jim wrote IBM Personal Systems: A Business Perspective, which became a bestseller and has been translated into eleven foreign languages. Jim is also the author of IBM AS/400: A Business Perspective, now in its sixth edition, and IBM ES/9000: A Business Perspective, now in its second edition.
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- PublisherJohn Wiley & Sons
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0471558796
- ISBN 13 9780471558798
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number2
- Number of pages320
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