What’s Next for IBM Power? [VIDEO]

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Sean Michael Kerner
Jun 21, 2013

While x86 is a volume hardware platform that IBM uses to support Linux and Windows, the Power architecture can support multiple operating systems as well. Currently Power supports the AIX Unix platform, Linux and the i5 OS, which is what was once known as AS-400.

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Sean Michael Kerner

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