Talk:IBM RS/6000

Not a valid abbriviation
I worked for IBM in the early '90's when these were coming out. I distinctly remember that the abbreviation "RS/6000" was verboten, to the point that email was censored and would kick back with an error if it was used. This was a royal pain because sometimes it would be embedded in a quote from a customer's incoming email.

I don't have any official source to cite, so I thought I'd note it here as interesting trivia. Maybe someone will be able to flesh that out along with more details about development.

I recall (I think) that the graphics card platform was called "Rios" as this was the internal code name and it stuck, informally.

Networking was Token Ring.

It shipped with multiple SCSI cards (even though one could control many things &mdash; throughput of the controller?) with HD's up to half a gigabyte, CD-ROM, and huge tape cartridges, and a 3½" floppy.

Długosz (talk) 22:23, 12 November 2009 (UTC)


 * I guess IBM changed their mind at some point; perhaps they originally insisted on "RISC System/6000". The original ones may have used Token Ring, but I suspect that didn't last long, given that they were competing with established companies such as Sun, who sold machines with Ethernet.


 * "RIOS" was the multi-chip POWER CPU implementation; see IBM POWER Guy Harris (talk) 18:29, 1 June 2012 (UTC)

Please rename as IBM RS/6000
Consistent with other IBM articles.50.136.247.190 (talk) 04:01, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

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Moved as proposed. BD2412 T 00:14, 9 May 2021 (UTC)

IBM RISC System/6000 → IBM RS/6000 – Per WP:COMMONTITLE, the most commonly used name should be used. I've Googled both names and the new name seems to be used around 6 times as much. On the Google Ngram viewer, RS/6000 is also far more popular, see here PhotographyEdits (talk) 20:33, 28 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Talk:IBM RISC System/6000 requests the same rename.
 * On the other hand, this edit says "99Electrons moved page RS/6000 to IBM RISC System/6000: Consistency with other articles about IBM computers, as suggested on the talk page", but I don't see anything on the this page that suggested such a move. I guess the "consistency" is because most other articles about IBM computers with "System/" in the name spell out "System" and precede it with "IBM"; the one exception was AS/400, although that was renamed to "IBM System i" when the product was renamed.  That exception was probably because of WP:COMMONTITLE. Guy Harris (talk) 18:44, 31 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Support per WP:COMMONNAME. —В²C ☎ 14:38, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
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Minicomputer?
When I worked on it, it was termed a minicomputer (as opposed to a mainframe). Is the RS/6000 indeed a minicomputer? The article doesn't mention this. Thanks.

Lehasa (talk) 16:29, 14 November 2023 (UTC)
 * If it sits on your desk and has a display whose frame buffer is part of the RS/6000, it's a workstation.
 * If it sits in a machine room and responds to requests from other computers on a network, it's a server.
 * Otherwise, it might be considered a superminicomputer (as it's 32-bit or 64-bit) or a midrange computer. Guy Harris (talk) 19:28, 14 November 2023 (UTC)