IBM? RISC System/6000: A Business Perspective - Softcover

Hoskins, Jim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471048097 ISBN 13: 9780471048091

Publisher: Wiley, 1995

Synopsis

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 this title

From the Back Cover

IBM RISC SYSTEM/6000 Sixth Edition

A Business Perspective

Written by an IBM insider, IBM RISC System/6000, Sixth Edition is the businessperson's complete guide to all important details of every model. Revised and updated, this Sixth 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 Power PC Symmetric *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 7331 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0471048097
• ISBN 13: 9780471048091
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 398