Re: Who has some idea of AIX 5.3 new features?

From: Nic (nicflatterie_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 03/31/04


Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 07:21:10 -0500

Confirmed, on power5 only (got this from the sales suppport eng. at IBM)
Nic.

"Steve Nottingham" <steve@wakefieldrfc.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
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> stephenyang75@hotmail.com (stephen yang) wrote in message
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> > Who has some idea of AIX 5.3 new features?
> > Such as virtual disk,ethernet adapter?
>
> I have heard of such things as having an I/O partition and using
> percentages of CPU's in LPAR's this latter feature will only work on
> the new range of hardware using the POWER5 chip.
>
> Steve



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