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Internal IBM interview with John McCalpin: On the POWER7, Simultaneous Multi-Threading - and the true origins of AIX. (via HTP)
POWER7? Good God these guys plan ahead (POWER5 is the cutting edge at the moment, while Apple's G5 is a simplified version of the POWER4.) Super geeky, but interesting if you are into such things. I love the "Level: Introductory" label applied to the article. Yeah, "introductory" if you are a hardware engineer working for IBM.
Also liked this exchange:
dW: That is a shame. I have one more on the subject of OSes -- was AIX really designed by space aliens?Hmmm. Classic non-denial denial? The truth is out there.
McCalpin: I hadn't heard that one....