Primary System
Power Mac 11,2
Central Processing
-2 dual-core, 64-bit PowerPC 970MP processors (4 total PPC64 cores)
-4 AltiVec processing units (1 per core)
-8 independent, double-precision math coprocessors (2 per core)
- Operating frequency: 2.5 Ghz
- Superscalar, superpiplined, parallel data structure - makes possible up to 860 total simultaneous in-flight instructions
- Prefetch, branch prediction and speculative instruction execution
- Simultaneous execution of up to 10 out-of-order operations per PPC64 core
- Dual, bidirectional FSB
Memory - 8 GB
Video Card - Radeon RV710
Disks
-1 240 GB Mercury Electra Solid-State Drive
-1 1TB 7200 RPM HDD
External Expansion Ports
-USB 2.0
-IEEE 1394a
-IEEE 1394b
PowerPC enthusiast? Maybe...
PPC an interesting, powerful architecture, with enough support from Linux to be completely usable as a primary platform. Its also unique enough to encourage my fondness for "tinkering". This blog is a collection of my experiences and thoughts regarding personal computing on the PowerPC architecture. Specifically, most of the information here applies to installing, configuring and using Linux and current PC hardware on Power Mac 11,2 systems. This is not a blog about Apple, though it does apply to the PPC machines manufactured by Apple (as well as IBM POWER Systems, and PPC computers by ACube Systems and A-Eon Technology).
Why Utopia? Because I like it.
